Slowly, along the more than 1,500-mile-long coast, a smattering of smaller boutique hotels have started to pop up, fuelling a tourism boom that last year added more than £165 million to the government’s coffers. Travel connections are better, both internally and from the UK. With new Safari Air Africa flights leaving three times a week from Beira to Gorongosa, and twice-weekly flights from Beira to Vilanculos, bush and beach destinations can be accessed by air – music to the ears of…

