01Tourism and service sector
The city's tourism and service sector contributed around 1.21% to the city's economy. Baubau contains 50 registered hotels, 177 registered restaurant businesses, eight designated public market buildings, and 1,559 registered warungs. In 2023, the city was visited by 108,329 domestic tourists and 289 foreign tourists. The city has 3,458 registered small and micro industries in 2020, which employed 8,148 people that year.