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World Bank Gets Into Eco Tourism With Elephant-Friendly Mozambique Hotel
The World Bank has announced a $3 million investment to create jobs and boost sustainable conservation through a community-conceived ecotourist resort. Writes Jenara Nerenberg
Mozambique is gearing up to build a $3 million eco-tourist resort in the Maputo Elephant Reserve, to be co-financed by the World Bank, with the goal of creating jobs and increasing a community-driven sustainable tourism industry.
The local partner–the A Hi Zameni Chemucane Association – represents 850 people from three surrounding communities who co-signed the 50-year agreement with the World Bank.
The eco-tourist lodge will differ from other similar tourist attractions in neighboring countries as it will be community-driven and not a purely commercial venture.
“The Government policy has been to involve the local communities in the management of natural resources and to encourage their engagement in the economic opportunities created in protected areas. This pilot partnership model with the communities is a means to support poverty alleviation and promote the sustainable use of natural resources” said Mozambique Minister of Tourism, Fernando Sumbana Júnior, in the press release.
Mozambique is a south-eastern Africas coastal country sharing borders with South Africa to the South and Tanzania to the North and the Maputo Reserve is part of the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area, a joint development by the governments of Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa.
To that end, it’s hoped that such sustainable conservation initiatives will become region-wide. Mozambique’s Ministry of Tourism and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation are actively trying to promote cross-border collaborations and make Mozambique a more business-friendly country to invest in.
Valere Tjolle is editor of the Sustainable Tourism Report Suite 2011 – latest news on the suite at
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