Pom City markets at Chinatown, 5 mile expects to attract more customers

The Port Moresby City markets at the New China Town site, at 5 mile in Port Moresby is expected to attract more local and foreign business interest, going forward.

This in the areas of sourcing local products like coffee, crafts and textiles including investment opportunities.

Pascoe Events Marketing Manager Marie Mapai told NBC National Online that this opportunity is aimed at minimizing rural to city drifts by ensuring money reaches the pockets of ordinary Papua New Guineans.

She adds that PNG has so much potential to go above and beyond if ordinary citizens are given the opportunity to market their products at places like the Port Moresby City markets.

"Those partipcipated in the Pom City Markets that have gone into formal business, running their own shops.

"We have Lava Girl that also joined us at the Pom City Markets back at Sir John Guise Stadium.

"We have a lot of SMEs that joined Pom City Markets and now at the Unity Mall, renting their own spaces, running their own shops.

"And we have the current one, Lufa Baskets from Eastern Highlands. She's renting a shop space at Brian Bell Plaza Gordons and I think she recently opened a shop at Airways Hotel. So that's her second shop.

"And yes, a lot of our SMEs have grown from our Pom City Markets and are now running their own shop spaces."