The Mozambican business community considers that the ban on flights to the country, following the identification of a new variant of the covid-19 virus in Southern Africa, is once again holding back the revival of tourism, which has been in crisis since last year.

According to the president of Tourism of the Confederation of Business Associations (CTA) of Mozambique, Abdula Momade, these restrictions are a further setback for national tourism, because many investors had already resumed business trips to Mozambique and many others had scheduled to do so in the coming months, following the improvement of security conditions in the center and north of the country and with the projected arrival of the floating platform that will produce natural gas in the Rovuma basin.

"It is another catastrophic setback. Leisure tourism and business tourism had hoped to emerge from the rubble into which they were thrown by the various waves of covid-19 that affected Mozambique and the world, but uncertainty returns with this news," laments the president of the pelouro.

Abdula Momade also advanced, that if the ban on international travel continues, the expectation of business and job creation will be frustrated, leading to "despair for entrepreneurs, workers and families.