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Mozambique: Hotels And Tourist Resorts to Be Certified
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
17 April 2008
Posted to the web 17 April 2008
Maputo
Mozambique Tourism Ministry is planning to grant, by the end of this year, certificates and patents or special brands to hotels and other tourist resorts, as recognition of their role in the promotion of social and environmental sustainable practices.
Thus, the Tourism Ministry in partnership with the Hotel Association of Southern Mozambique and Centro Terra Viva is organizing as from last Monday a number of consultation seminars across the country to discuss the viability of this certification exercise in Mozambique.
According to the tourism national deputy director, Hélder Chambal, cited in Thursday's issue of the daily "Noticias", this initiative seeks to promote best practices on social and sustainable tourism that would yield results with impact in the regions where these units have been established.
In his understanding, this certification will allow tourist resorts or hotels to be recognized not only for the quality of services provided, but also for their role in social development, environment protection and preservation.
Certification and patenting are not expected to be obligatory. However, said Chambal, it is expected that this initiative will compel the hospitality industry to adhere to the program.
For this recognition, hotels and resorts will have to meet a number of requirements such as a healthy relationship with the community where they have established their operations and balance both the negative and positive impact on the environment.
According to Chambal, the benefit for the communities need not necessarily to be translated in financial gains or other material assets, but could be in terms of social infrastructures such as schools, hospitals or environment protection.
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He further explained that in Mozambique there is already in place a certification process to evaluate the quality services provided by the hospitality industry. The current initiative, however, aims at distinguishing those that would contribute for the social development of the country.
He said that a similar experience is already being successfully tested in some of the neighbouring countries, such as South Africa, and the same success is expected to be replicated in Mozambique, and in the whole Southern African region.
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