The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Filipe Zau, has called for the creation of bridges of dialogue to explore and promote the potential of domestic and international tourism in Angola. Speaking at the opening of the Bitur Angola Forum in Luanda, the minister highlighted the country’s vast opportunities, including considerable natural and cultural wealth, as well as an opening of entry and work visas to improve the business environment in the country.
Zau emphasized that tourism is not only a means to attract visitors, but also a chain that brings together nations, cultures, and economies. He added that Angola has an extraordinary tourism potential that, when exploited strategically, can become a driving force for a new economic era in the country.
Through the forum, Angola gives a new sign of openness, inviting investors, tour operators, and visionary business leaders to actively participate in the construction of this new future for the country. The Bitur Angola Forum, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in partnership with the Institute for Tourism Development (INFORTUR), aims to make the country known by disseminating cultural, historical, gastronomic, and natural aspects of tourism in Angola under the motto “Tourism as a Determining Factor for the Diversification of the Economy in Angola”.
Manuel Gonçalves, the vice-governor for the Political and Social Sector of the province of Luanda, believes that the country’s capital, being the main gateway and exit, naturally has an incomparable tourist potential and fundamental ingredients for tourism products, capable of attracting national and international tourists. He stressed that the tourist offer cannot be based only on hotels and restaurants, but on everything that tourists have to value.
