"Mozambique doubles up in five years..."

Its good to see that despite the growing economic problems around the world, people are still looking for new destinations for their family holiday, with news that Mozambique tourist income has more than doubled in just five years...

Maputo - Mozambique's tourism revenue more than doubled in the past five years, hitting 200 million dollars in 2009 for the first time ever, the country's tourism minister announced Wednesday...


Some 1.5 million people visited the southern African country in 2009, also more than double the 2004 figure, Minister Fernando Sumbana Jr was quoted by the weekly Canal de Mocambique newspaper on Wednesday as saying...

In 2004, the former Portuguese colony earned only 90 million dollars from tourism...

With its nearly 2,500 kilometres of Indian Ocean coastline, Mozambique was a premier tourist destination before the country's 16- year civil war, which killed around 1 million people and wrecked basic infrastructure by the time it ended in 1992...

For more on this exciting news, please go to http://www.eturbonews.com/13224/mozambique-tourist-income-more-doubles-five-years

Barticus.