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Timor-Leste Tourism Investment Forum 2024 Announced
The government announced its first Tourism Investment Forum, held with the IFC at the Dili Convention Centre on 21–22 November 2024.
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Latest news, government updates, and developments from Timor-Leste.
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Subaun Locals Help Shape Unique Whale Watching in Timor-Leste
How fishers in Subaun became a whale-spotting network that tips off Dili tour operators and collects data on pygmy blue whales (December 2021).
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GoTimor Travel App Puts Timor-Leste Tourism on the Map
In December 2021 USAID, Heineken Timor, Telkomcel and the tourism directorate launched GoTimor, a free app listing businesses and events, mainly in Dili.
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USAID selebra Loron Mundiál Turizmu 2021 ho Kampiaun Turizmu
On World Tourism Day 2021, USAID's Tourism For All project honoured 13 tourism champions and two young tourism ambassadors in Dili.
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USAID-Backed Plan to Turn Dili Port into a Tourism Hub
In 2021 the Council of Ministers approved a US$50M+ public-private plan, prepared with USAID, to turn Dili's old port into a marina and tourism hub.
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Timor-Leste Tourism Photo Competition
In 2021 MDF and the Professional Photographers' Association of Queensland ran a photo competition to build a free image bank for Timor-Leste tourism.
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Traditional Laws Protect the World's Most Biodiverse Reef
A 2021 note on a BBC Travel story about Ataúro communities reviving tara bandu customary law to protect their reefs alongside community tourism.
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Tourism in Timor-Leste: Small Businesses, Big Impacts
A May 2021 Asia Foundation article: COVID-19 left Timor-Leste's tourism businesses at 23% of pre-pandemic activity, and subsidies missed their needs.
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Timorese Parliament Ratifies Air Services Agreement with Australia
On 26 January 2021 Timor-Leste's parliament ratified its first air services agreement, with Australia, opening the way for more flights and competition.
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Feira dos 45 anos da Proclamação da Independência em Lauhata, Liquiçá
Notice of a fair held 22–27 November 2020 in Lauhata, Liquiçá, to mark 45 years since Timor-Leste's 1975 proclamation of independence.
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O Festival da Bua, a colheita da noz de areca na ilha de Ataúro
A Lusa report (in Portuguese) on Ataúro's one-day Sa'e Bua areca nut harvest festival, which celebrates a legend of peace between three brothers.
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Post-COVID Era: Dive Operators Working Group and MDF Launch a Video
In June 2020 Timor-Leste's dive operators and Australia-funded MDF released a video telling divers worldwide the country would be ready when travel resumed.