On Tuesday, March 12th, the Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri, together with the Minister of Tourism, Manuel Vong and the Vice Minister of Tourism, Rui Menezes da Costa, inaugurated the Tourism Information Center.
The center now opened is located in the capital, near the restaurant El Legendário, in Lecidere, thus allowing tourists and potential investors to know the main historical and cultural sites of Timor-Leste.
In his speech, Marí Alkatiri said that Timor-Leste cannot depend solely and exclusively on the oil sector and that mechanisms to diversify the national economy must be found, highlighting that “to enable economic development there must be a cross-cutting view of cooperation between the various economic sectors “.
The Prime Minister added that “the tourism sector must cooperate with the agriculture, trade and industry sectors so that in the future the Timorese tourism does not live only on imported products, but creates jobs, increases state revenues and decreases poverty”.
The inauguration of the Tourism Information Center was also attended by several Government members, diplomatic corps representatives, development partners and tour operators.