Investments are planned in the country’s tourist attractions, which in the first phase will be carried out in the provinces of Benguela, Cuando Cubango, Cuanza Norte, Huíla, Luanda, Malange, Namibe and Zaire
The Executive expects that the tourism sector will employ 50 thousand people in the next four years, that is from 2024-2027, with the achievement of goals to ensure large-scale direct investment, develop infrastructure and public services. The data is contained in the National Tourism Promotion Plan (PLANATUR) recently launched by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
According to PLANATUR, the number of jobs in the sector will increase from year to year, with 5,000 jobs expected to be created by 2024, which should rise to 15,000 in 2025, 30,000 in 2026 until the target is reached. of 50 thousand in 2027. According to data from the PRODESI Intersectoral Commission, on the “Study of the Value Chain of the Tourism Sector in Angola”, launched in July 2020, during this period Angola employed close to 31 thousand employees in the sector. Of these jobs, 74% of the total are concentrated in three provinces, namely Luanda with 62%, Benguela 6% and Huíla with 6%. The Tourism Sector Value Chain Study in Angola shows that 55% of total employees work in hotels, 17% in guesthouses and 17% in guesthouses.
To fulfill the 50 thousand jobs foreseen in PLANATUR, whose financial provision from the State is around 2,489,980,000,000.007 (two trillion, four hundred and eighty-nine billion, nine hundred and eighty million kwanzas), more than 3 thousand and 175 rooms.
Access to the poles
Financing for PLANATUR includes funds for the asphalting of access roads to the poles, projected for 500 kilometers by 2027, which will progressively increase from 50 kilometers in 2024, 150 in 2025 and 300 in 2026. Access to the poles will also have 600 kilometers of earthworks. Investments are also planned in the country’s tourist attractions, which, in the first phase, will be carried out in eight provinces, namely Benguela, Cuando Cubango, Cuanza Norte, Huíla, Luanda, Malange, Namibe and Zaire.
Benguela, for example, should see the conditions of Praia da Caotinha improved, with the implementation of infrastructure and public services to support tourist activity, such as sanitary facilities, tourist signage, convenience store, viewpoint, marine spatial planning and toll . The same should happen with Baía Azul, also in Benguela, Fenda da Tundavala and Serra da Leba, in Huila, Pedras Negras de Pungo-a-Ndongo, Rápidos do Cuanza and Pólo Turístico de Calandula, in Malanje, as well as Largo do Curoca Arch and Hills in Namibe.
PLANATUR is a four-year plan that will mobilize public and private investments, between 2024-2027, with 2 trillion and 276 billion relating to projects under direct management of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the difference, by the other ministerial departments that contribute to the development of infrastructure to support tourism, namely Energy and Water, and Public Works, Urban Planning and Housing. In this four-year period, the private sector should finance 247 billion kwanzas, to promote tourism, reinforcing the capital available with banks, as well as the Active Venture Capital Fund (FACRA).