Tourism and production of the space in Mozambique: case of the coastal zone of Inhambane

Abstract

Given his physical-geographical and partner-cultural characteristics, Mozambique constitutes an favorable and attractive space for consumption by the tourism, dominated since 1992 by big foreign investments of capital, with Inhambane's coastal zone (ZCI) being one of the preferred areas by the local, national and international geographical place context. however, in general the level of life of the population of the country and from ZCI is very low, enabling, a coexistence of two forms of production of the space, one whose mediation is to consumption, associated to the tourism, and the other related to the subsistence, constituted by the community resident. The objective of this geographic research is to analyze the development of the tourism in the ZCI, evidencing the conflicts arising from the meeting, in the territory, of forms not only distinct, but contradictory of use and appropriation of the space, both expressions of the process of conflict and contradiction of production of the space. It is one qualitative study, based in the bibliographic review, documentary and on the work on field. The results of the study give indications of the existence of conflicts inter and intra-social arising of the weak insertion of the community hostess in the activity and to the loss of the possession of the land by them, due it's occupation, mainly by tourist agents for the construction of infrastructure and consequently the privatization for exclusive use of the tourism.