Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: GOUVEIA DRAMANE SUMALE

Tourism and Development: An analysis of Pro-Poor Tourism in the region of beach da Barra, Municipality Inhambane.

 Tourism; Tourism Development; Pro-Poor Tourism; Value-chain in Tourism.

Mozambique is a Global South of Sub-Saharan African country. The Government listed the Tourism sector as one of the four strategic sectors for the growth/development of its economy. In this regard, there are important incentives for the implementation of national and foreign tourist projects that may allow for an accelerated growth of the sector and therefore increase the sector's gains through revenue collection and employment of national labor, as well as allowing a balance and diversification of the economy by exploiting the existing tourist potential and offering services in a sustainable manner. The present project essentially aims to assess the alignment between the investment made (and future) and the gains arising from these through the installed model that, in an evidently unbalanced way, favors foreign investment with external bases that can allow the drain of foreign exchange generated by the sector, due to the model adopted, which weakens the institutions responsible for tourism as well as the Government as a whole, allowing the bookings and payments made abroad to be made, in which taxation is made in the issuing destinations and which consumer-tourists come to Mozambique to consume/ enjoy the tourism product. In order to achieve the objectives, theoretical and field research will be carried out, favoring, on the one hand, works and articles that deal with the subject and, on the other hand, the application of questionnaires for consumer-tourists in establishments/destinations with a greater influx of tourists, and conducting interviews with the main tourism stakeholders.