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Angolan tourism generates $667 million in 2025

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Angolan President João Lourenço says tourism generated $667 million in revenue in 2025 and helped create more than 9,000 jobs. He also cited 1,577 hotel establishments and an average hotel occupancy rate of 72% in his address to the National Assembly, Jornal F8 reports.

Angolan tourism generated $667 million in revenue in 2025 and helped create more than 9,000 jobs, João Lourenço, President of the Republic and of the MPLA, said at the opening of the fifth legislative session of the fifth legislature at the National Assembly, according to Jornal F8.

The Angolan head of state presented the sector as a driver of economic diversification, private investment, local economies and the use of the country’s natural, cultural and historical resources, Jornal F8 reported.

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