The main goal of this project is answer the broad question: 

How can dive tourism deliver sustainable benefits for local communities in developing countries?

To understand how diving tourism can deliver social and environmental benefits, this research will answer the specific research questions:
1. What are the diving tourism attributes (e.g. quality of dive sites, biophysical attributes, access, range of current tourism opportunities, range of accommodation, restaurants) in Inhambane, Pemba and Ponta D’Ouro1?
2. What are the dive tourists’ profiles and experiences (e.g. divers demographics, tourism experiences and perceptions of dive sites, interests about the host community)?
3. What are the community expectations and perspectives about diving tourism impacts on their lives and on the environment?
4. What have managers, NGOs and the private diving tourism sector done to increase benefits from diving tourism to the host community in Mozambique and how could these be maximised?;
5. What are the managers, NGOs and private diving tourism sector perspectives about the opportunities for diving tourism to assist sustainable development?;
6. To what extent has diving tourism supported marine conservation actions in the selected study areas (e.g. through awareness, education, funding, support to management) and how could this be optimised?;
Analysis of these questions will then inform two further questions:
7. What are the connections and extent of connections between community and diving tourism (i.e. on which community groups is diving tourism most likely to impact both directly and indirectly and what are the nature of theses impacts);
 8. What are the differences in diving tourism in Inhambane, Ponta D’Ouro1 and Vamizi Island and how do such differences affect the sustainability of diving tourism?