Travel And Tourism in Angola
Euromonitor International's Travel And Tourism in Angola report offers a comprehensive guide to the market at a national level. It looks at travel accommodation, transportation, car rental, tourist attractions and retail travel. It identifies the leading companies and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market, including background information on disposable income, annual leave and holiday taking habits.
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Tables: 49 | Publication date: Feb 2009
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Product coverage
Car rental; Demand factors; Health & wellness tourism; Tourism flows domestic; Tourism flows inbound; Tourism flows outbound; Tourism receipts and expenditure; Tourist attractions; Transportation; Travel accommodation; Travel retail
Executive summary
Angola – a contradiction
As the second biggest country in terms of oil production in Sub-Saharan Africa, Angola is going through the post-war process of stabilisation and peace consolidation. After one of the longest wars lasting 27 years (1975-2002), Angola has been rebuilding its economy and transitioning from a troubled and disarrayed country into one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Yet, the country’s wealth in natural resources is a contradiction to the endemic poverty of the majority of the Angolan population and the endemic corruption at all levels of society.
Despite all the social problems, Angola’s economy is growing stronger, driven largely by oil production. The tourism sector is also growing, though slowly, driven mainly by air travel as a growing number of people, though still in the minority, are slowly enjoying higher disposable incomes, greater peace and freedom of movement.
Angola’s “contradictory” structure has received mixed reactions. On the one hand, it is still receiving foreign aid to help rebuild the country, and private foreign investment previously exclusively from Portugal, is now also coming from the Virgin Islands, South Africa and more recently from China, which has clearly been strengthening its presence in Angola. On the other hand, corruption has been restraining and undermining all investments as the government lacks transparency and accountability.
Economic transformation could help boost the tourism environment
Angola’s economy, based on oil production, continues to grow and most of this growth is thanks to continuous foreign investment. Chinese companies are helping to rebuild roads, highways and railways destroyed during the civil war. With increasing revenue, and with the government budget having more than doubled in 2005-2007, the country is able to invest to improve its infrastructure even though the government focuses heavily on the physical development of the infrastructure and much less on the planning. US$4 billion is to be spent to restore the railway lines alone. Travel operators are benefiting from an improved economic environment and construction is booming with 40 new hotels planned by 2010.
Growing tourism trade
Tourism is relatively new, however, the country’ natural beauty offers all that is needed to make the Angolan tourism industry a growing and strong sector in the years to come. Angola is now fully aware of the richness of its territory, namely its natural resources and landscape, and is thus trying to capture several types of tourism such as environmental tourism, rural tourism, agricultural-tourism, eco-tourism and safari and hunting tourism. One example of this government effort is the staging of events such as the Feira Internacional do Turismo e Cultura (International Fair of Tourism and Culture).
TAAG, Angola’s national airline, banned from European airspace
Angola’s national airline, TAAG, is banned from 4 July 2007 by the EU from flying over European airspace due to security reasons. The ban means that TAAG cannot fly to or from any European country. This situation is particularly important to the Angolan economy as it hits its tourism revenues since Europe accounts for around 60% of incoming tourists. The Portuguese carrier, TAP is now the main recipient of the revenues from the gap that TAAG banning produced. TAP, initially banned from Angolan airspace due to a retaliatory gesture by the Angolan authorities, is now the main carrier on the popular Luanda-Lisbon route.
Landmines cause dramatic regional imbalance
Landmines set during the civil war have created a dangerous physical barrier for humans and animals in some Angola provinces. People and animals have abandoned the unsafe areas and clearing the landmines became an urgent matter, now that the growth in the number of animals is becoming unsustainable in their currently limited area. The government has to act quickly to clear the dangerous areas so as to rebalance the population spread more evenly across the country, especially now that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees are returning to their homelands (around four million by 2007).
Table of contents
TRAVEL AND TOURISM IN ANGOLA : MARKET INSIGHT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Angola – a contradiction
Economic transformation could help boost the tourism environment
Growing tourism trade
TAAG, Angola’s national airline, banned from European airspace
Landmines cause dramatic regional imbalance
KEY TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS
A developing profile
Potential tourism environment requires more than infrastructure changes
2006 results, a wake-up call to tourism authorities
Infrastructure development triggered by sports events
Emphasis on eco-tourism
MARKET INDICATORS
Table 1 Length of Domestic Trip: 2002-2007
Table 2 Length of Outbound Departure: 2002-2007
MARKET DATA
Table 3 Arrivals by Country of Origin: 2002-2007
Table 4 Arrivals by Method of Transport: 2002-2007
Table 5 Arrivals by Purpose of Visit: 2002-2007
Table 6 Incoming Tourist Receipts: Value 2002-2007
Table 7 Forecast Arrivals by Country of Origin: 2007-2012
Table 8 Forecast Arrivals by Method of Transport: 2007-2012
Table 9 Forecast Arrivals by Purpose of Visit: 2007-2012
Table 10 Forecast Incoming Tourist Receipts: Value 2007-2012
Table 11 Departures by Destination: 2002-2007
Table 12 Departures by Method of Transport: 2002-2007
Table 13 Departures by Purpose of Visit: 2002-2007
Table 14 Outgoing Tourist Expenditure: Value 2002-2007
Table 15 Forecast Departures by Destination: 2007-2012
Table 16 Forecast Departures by Method of Transport: 2007-2012
Table 17 Forecast Departures by Purpose of Visit: 2007-2012
Table 18 Forecast Outgoing Tourist Expenditure: Value 2007-2012
Table 19 Domestic Trips by Purpose of Visit and by Method of Transport: 2002-2007
Table 20 Domestic Tourist Expenditure: Value: 2002-2007
Table 21 Forecast Domestic Trips by Purpose of Visit and by Method of Transport: 2007-2012
Table 22 Forecast Domestic Tourist Expenditure: Value: 2007-2012
Table 23 Tourist Attractions: Value 2002-2007
Table 24 Forecast Tourist Attractions: Value 2007-2012
Table 25 Balance of Tourism Payments: Value 2002-2007
DEFINITIONS
Tourism Parameters
Travel accommodation
Transportation
Car rental
Travel retail
Internet sales
Source
Summary 1 Research Sources
TRAVEL ACCOMMODATION
Headlines
Trends
Prospects
Sector Data
Table 26 Travel Accommodation Sales by Sector: Value 2002-2007
Table 27 Travel Accommodation Outlets by Sector: Units 2002-2007
Table 28 Regional Hotel Parameters 2007
Table 29 Travel Accommodation by Sector: Number of Rooms 2005-2007
Table 30 Travel Accommodation by Sector: Number of Beds 2005-2007
Table 31 Travel Accommodation Internet Sales: Internet Transaction Value 2002-2007
Table 32 Hotel Company Rankings 2005-2007
Table 33 Forecast Travel Accommodation Sales by Sector: Value 2007-2012
Table 34 Forecast Travel Accommodation Outlets by Sector: Units 2007-2012
Table 35 Forecast Travel Accommodation Internet Sales: Internet Transaction Value 2007-2012
TRANSPORTATION
Headlines
Trends
Prospects
Sector Data
Table 36 Transportation Sales by Sector: Value 2002-2007
Table 37 Airline Company Rankings 2005-2007
Table 38 Forecast Transportation Sales by Sector: Value 2007-2012
CAR RENTAL
Headlines
Trends
Prospects
Sector Data
Table 39 Car Rental Sales: Value 2002-2007
Table 40 Car Rental Internet Sales: Internet Transaction Value 2002-2007
Table 41 Car Rental Company Rankings 2005-2007
Table 42 Forecast Car Rental Sales: Value 2007-2012
Table 43 Forecast Car Rental Internet Sales: Internet Transaction Value 2007-2012
TRAVEL RETAIL
Headlines
Trends
Prospects
Sector Data
Table 44 Travel Retail Outlets: Units 2002-2007
Table 45 Travel Retail Products Sales: Value 2002-2007
Table 46 Travel Retail Products Company Rankings 2005-2007
Table 47 Forecast Travel Retail Outlets: Units 2007-2012
Table 48 Forecast Travel Retail Products Sales: Value 2007-2012