Most of the tourist resorts operating in Inhambane province already have an occupancy rate above 95%, as a result of the increase in the number of domestic and foreign tourists visiting this part of the country for the festive season.

The provincial director of Culture and Tourism in Inhambane, Emídio Nhantumbo, said on Wednesday that some tour operators in the districts of Vilankulo and Inhassoro, including the National Park of Bazaruto Archipelago, have already sold out their reservations.

Quoted by the newspaper Notícias, Nhantumbo made it known that Inhambane expects to receive more than 100,000 tourists from various parts of the country and the world, with the aim of delighting in the existing tourist potentialities, an unusual movement that comes two years after a total hibernation of the economy, because of the Covid-19 pandemic that paralyzed the world.

Of the 100 thousand tourists expected, about 50% are nationals and the rest are mostly South Africans, Portuguese, Americans, Zimbabweans, among other nationalities.