Mozambique’s publicly-owned airports company, ADM, has abandoned its plans to rehabilitate the airport in the northern city of Pemba, in favour of building an entirely new airport for this fast growing tourist resort.The head of the ADM Projects Office, Antonio Loureiro, speaking at a tourist investment conference in Pemba, said the new airport would cost about 300 million US dollars, would be built to take large aircraft, and would be able to handle 500,000 passengers a year.Cited in Monday’s issue of the independent daily “O Pais”, Loureiro said “studies made by ADM concluded that the amount required to expand the existing airport is not far short of what is required to build an entirely new airport.The beaches and islands of Cabo Delgado province are already attracting sizeable numbers of tourists to Pemba. The existing airport is received an average of 1,200 passengers a day.The government has declared Pemba a “Zone of Tourist Interest” (ZIT), and further investment is flowing to the area. Thus the Italian group Meta Resorts has announced the building of a 150 room hotel in the Pemba suburb of Chuiba. Work will start on this undertaking, the Chuiba Beach Hotel, in the first quarter of 2011, and should take 14 months.
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