Are you traveling to Baucau for business or pleasure? Are you looking for a room to stay in or a fried chicken for your dinner? The first-ever Buy Local Baucau Guide will help you find whatever you need during your visit.
Prepared by Peace Dividend Trust and the Guide Post, the Guide provides business names, exact locations, and contact information for over 120 businesses and organizations based in Baucau, in an easy-to-handle format. It is now available in all major hotels and restaurants in Dili and Baucau, as well as Dili airport and travel agencies.
Mr. Epifanio Faculto, Director of the Department of Commerce in the Ministry of Tourism, Commerce and Industry, has expressed his enthusiasm for this initiative which will greatly help people, especially foreigners, find their way around Baucau’s business community.
Mr. Mariano dos Santos, Police Immigration Border Sector Commander, recognized that the Buy Local Baucau Guide fills a void. “Foreigners always ask us to give them information about businesses, hotels, restaurants, car rental agencies, etc.,” he said.
Baucau, Timor-Leste’s second-largest town, hosts an important expatriate community. Comprehensive and detailed profiles of each Baucau business are available on the PDT Timor-Leste Online Procurement Database (www.BuildingMarkets.org) More personalized assistance is also available at PDT’s Baucau office in Baucau Kota Lama.
