Rivungo – “Angola’s beak” region, in the province of Cuando Cubango, is currently the area of greatest interest for the promotion of tourism in the country, as a result of its amount of biodiversity of wildlife.
The statement was made by the chairperson of the Board of Directors of the National Agency for the Management of Okavango (ANAGERO), Rui Lisboa, on Wednesday, during the visit of a delegation of national and foreign businesspeople, headed by the Minister of Tourism, Márcio Daniel, to see the investment potential.
On the occasion, Rui Lisboa said that the privileged location of “Beak of Angola” allows the country to easily integrate into the great tourist destination of the Okavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, which also includes Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
He assured that there is a particular interest from the Executive in giving priority to this area, to attract investments and, at the same time, work on issues of access, infrastructure and basic services, in order to make all economic activity in the region viable, with main emphasis on promoting tourism.
He added that, in addition to Bico de Angola, there are also the areas of Mucusso, in Dirico, and in Licua and Luengue, which offer great potential in the biodiversity of wildlife.
He explained that the visit of the delegation, led by the Minister of Tourism, between the 19th and 21st of this month, aims to present the properties of Bico de Angola, as the country's main wildlife sanctuary, to national and foreign businessmen who have expressed interest in investing in the Angolan Okavango Region.
He said that during the 1st Investor Forum, held in Menongue, capital of Cuando Cubango, last January, the first investor guide for the Angolan Okavango Region was presented and approved and seven memoranda of understanding were signed with potential entrepreneurs.
After this action, he added, the implementation phase of the aforementioned memoranda begins, which necessarily involves field check-in visits, for the collection of all the necessary information and the preparation of investment projects.
In turn, the representative of the company Lupupa e Resort Atlântico, Luís Carvalho, praised the initiative of the Angolan Government, for showing all the source that exists in Bico de Angola to potential investors.
With tourism-related companies in the provinces of Luanda and Cuanza-Sul, he said that these initiatives should continue to be spread around the world, to seek more foreign investors.
Businessman Desidério dos Santos, assigned to the Opaia Group, said he was part of the delegation with the aim of verifying the potential of the Luengue-Luiana National Park, with the interest of seeing the valences that the space represents at a world level.
'As it is one of the areas preferred by the Government, we are very interested in being part of this dynamic, as the Ministry of Tourism is intrinsically linked to tourism implementation issues. We, as a private structure, are interested in boosting and growing in the face of the existing potential, so we want to be part of the first entrepreneurs to settle locally', he assured.
As it is the first time, the businessman said that the intention is to have a perception of the place, to create intrinsic conditions to develop any project related to tourism and increase the investment potential.
The delegation includes representatives of 10 companies, some of them with knowledge of the Angolan area of the Okavango and memoranda of understanding already signed with ANAGERO.
Also other businessmen who are visiting the area for the first time, with the intention of making real bets on investment, because the future of tourism in Angola and Southern Africa goes through the Angolan Okavango region, mainly through Angola’s beak region. FF/ALH/DOJ
