As a part of his official go to to Namibe, the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, accompanied by the First Lady, Ana Dias Lourenço, took a bike journey by way of the dunes of the just lately opened Iona National Park, which, based on the Head of Angolan State, served to encourage Angolan residents to undertake home tourism.
“The inauguration of this Iona Park consists of nature conservation but additionally tourism. Hence the truth that we got here right here to those dunes and began with a brand new period. I used to be keen to come back and journey a four-wheel motorcycle right here within the dunes to see if I might encourage, firstly, our youth, however, normally, Angolan residents to do tourism”, he mentioned, talking to journalists.
João Lourenço continued to elucidate that “tourism is not only for foreigners”. For the President of the Republic, “now we have to get into the behavior of doing tourism in our personal land”, including that, “due to this fact, Angolans are invited to come back to Iona Park”.
It ought to be remembered that throughout the seventh version of the International Tourism Exchange (BITUR 2024), which befell initially of the month, within the metropolis of Lubango, Huíla province, the Minister of State and Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic, Adão de Almeida argued that “financial diversification is one in all our nation’s greatest challenges and the tourism sector is a kind of with the best potential to contribute to this transformation”.
Adão de Almeida added {that a} vibrant and dynamic tourism sector boosts the economic system, generates employment and wealth, along with contributing to the event and prosperity of residents.
“We need to proceed working to create the required foundations for larger dynamics in home tourism. Angolans should be the primary enthusiastic about understanding and exploring the infinite vacationer potential that our nation has. If home tourism is a vibrant actuality, overseas tourism will extra simply emerge,” she highlighted.
“Angolans should be first enthusiastic about exploring the nation’s tourism potential”
