Mon, May 01, 2006 - Page 5 News List

Adventure tourism taking off in rebuilt East Timor

RENEWAL Seven years after mobs murdered 1,400 and destroyed 70 percent of the nation's buildings, a trickle of tourists is arriving for diving and stunning scenery

AFP , DILI

Vice Minister of Development Arcanjo da Silva says tourism is a priority for the government in helping to boost East Timor's economy.

"For the Timorese, we cannot only trust in gas and oil, or only trust in agriculture to develop our economy," he said, referring to East Timor's main foreign exchange earners.

"We have to look at other potential sectors and one of them is tourism," he said.

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