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Study of the value chain of the tourism sector in Angola as an alternative economic, social, and environmental development strategy under the PRODESI programme
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Angola has been facing several economic and social problems, with one of the most
important being related to the country’s long tradition of dependency on oil as a major
external revenue. Due to this situation, the country’s income has been slowing and there is
a need to find alternative strategies to increase the liquidity of the economy without which
Angola would lack the necessary funds to increase investment and proceed with adequate
policies to combat social exclusion and eradicate the flows of poverty. Aware of this
situation, the government implemented the national PRODESI project, whose aim is to
accelerate the process of the diversification of the nation’s economy. To this end, the
project aims to promote production and exports in the non-oil sectors, as well as in sectors
with a strong potential for import substitution. One of these areas is tourism, as a means of
developing some of the country’s regions and provinces, and also in order to benefit
populations living in worse conditions, whilst diversifying the economic restrictions. The
focus of actions in PRODESI foresees that the to accelerate the diversification of the
economy, whether through import substitution or through diversification and an increase in
exports, will be directed towards the production of goods and services or the
implementation of new strategies designed to gain critical mass and create intraand intersectoral relationships, such as in the case of tourism. Accordingly, the purpose of this
research is to identify the main weaknesses of the core value chain of tourism and to
propose a set of measures and recommendations to be implemented within the scope of
PRODESI. The main objective is to ensure that this activity effectively contributes to
diversifying Angola’s economy in a sustainable path and that it helps leverage the increase
in national production in a faster and more efficient way and thus significantly help decrease
the dependency on imports and increase the export basis, which can be achieved through
adopting a strategy of diversification, based on both international and national tourism. 3
Methodologically, several studies were consulted and various meetings and in-depth field
visits were made, between January and March 2000, in the provinces of Luanda, Malange,
Huíla, and Namibe. Several interviews were carried out up until 2021with major players
(ranging from ministers through to national directors and other experts) and tourist
organizations (Ministries, Travel Agencies, and entrepreneurs). It is estimated that in the
next 10 years Sub-Saharan Africa will register a growth in tourism superior to the global
average, regardless of the COVID pandemic. This research concluded that even though
tourism in Angola still faces a deficit at several levels, the country nevertheless has a set of
natural resources and tourism attributes that, if properly explored and used, could provide
an alternative way for the future development of Angola’s society. Angola still faces residual
tourism receipts from tourism activity as well as in total international incoming tourists, and
therefore Angola’s national government may have a huge opportunity to implement a
suitable tourism strategy (both for internal and external flows), in order to not only
reinforce its importance but also to benefit the population, fight poverty, and diversify
economic activities, as defined in the PRODESI strategy.
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Economic diversification Tourism activity Angola PRODESI
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Sarmento, Eduardo Moraes .(2023). “Study of the value chain of the tourism sector in Angola as an alternative economic, social, and environmental development strategy under the PRODESI programme“. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão - CEsA/CSG - Documentos de Trabalho nº 190/2023
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ISEG/CEsA - Centro de Estudos sobre África e Desenvolvimento