Climate, political and health vulnerabilities of tourism in Mozambique

Vulnérabilités climatiques, politiques et sanitaires du tourisme au Mozambique

Abstract

In Mozambique's development strategies, tourism occupies a prominent place. This fact is the result of the belief in the value (or potential) of the physical-geographical conditions and in the cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, among which the extensive coastline, around 2,700 km, stands out. The other part, probably the fundamental one, are tourists (without whom there is no tourism) for whom there must be mobility, safety, health conditions, etc., so that they can access tourist destinations. In order to reflect on the vulnerability of tourism in Mozambique, based on the bibliographic and documentary review, and on the data collected by the Mozambican segment of the international research network “tourism in times of a pandemic”, it is concluded that the barrier to mobility, for climatic, safety and health reasons, affects tourism, as happened with the Covid-19 pandemic, which highlighted the vulnerabilities of this sector in Mozambique and in the world.

Keywords:
Tourism; Vulnerability; Covid-19 pandemic; Mozambique