MAPUTO – The Africa Diplomatic Tourism and Investment Forum 2025 is set to take place from 20 to 22 August at the Joaquim Chissano International Conference Centre, bringing together more than 700 delegates, including government officials, diplomats, and investors from across the continent and beyond.
Coinciding with Mozambique’s 50th independence anniversary, the forum is being positioned as a strategic platform to strengthen cross-border cooperation, attract investment, and boost tourism development through diplomacy. It is convened under the theme “Unlocking Africa’s tourism potential through diplomacy and investment.”
Eswatini will be represented by its High Commissioner to Mozambique, H.E. Mlondi Dlamini, who joins a high-powered line-up of speakers including Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Hon. Moses Vilakati of the African Union Commission, Seychelles’ former Tourism Minister Alain St. Angee, and African Tourism Board Chairperson Cuthbert Ncube.
The forum will explore opportunities in key sectors such as energy, agriculture, infrastructure, and digital transformation, while placing tourism at the centre of Africa’s development narrative. Public and private sector stakeholders are expected to engage in matchmaking sessions, panel discussions, and policy roundtables designed to attract high-impact investment into the continent’s tourism and hospitality space.
More than 4,000 visitors are expected, with representation from African governments, regional blocs, development agencies, travel operators, creative industry leaders, and global media.
For Eswatini, the forum provides an opportunity to market national tourism priorities, promote the Triland initiative with Mozambique and South Africa, and forge stronger partnerships under Agenda 2063.
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