Eco, newest trend Geo should be mainstay of Bangladesh tourism
Monday, 17 March 2008
FE Report
As a part of AKTEL-Dhaka Travel Mart 2008, a seminar titled "Eco and the newest trend Geo should be the mainstay of Bangladesh tourism" was held at the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel Friday.
In his keynote paper Raquib Siddiqi, Chief Editor of Bangladesh Monitor -- the organiser of the travel mart, said the UNWTO forecast that by 2010, international tourist arrivals will reach 1.0 billion annually. It estimates that already international tourism generating $2.0 billion a day in receipts.
Bangladesh, he said, has wealth of Eco and Geo tourism attractions unknown to many, the country has hill, large coastlines, mangroves, rain forests, marshlands, islands and Sal forests. This diversity makes Bangladesh fairly rich in flora and fauna. The goal of Eco and Geo tourism development in Bangladesh should be to capture a portion of the enormous global tourism market by attracting visitors to natural areas and using the revenues, to fund local conservation and fuel economic development. The need is to bring these into well defined products and market those in tourism generating countries, Siddiqi said in his paper.
Chaired by Editor of Bangladesh Monitor Kazi Wahidul Alam, the seminar was addressed, among others, by ATAB General Secretary MA Bari, Dhaka University's Tourism and Hospitality Management Deptt chairman Ashraful Islam Choudhury and TOAB representative Syed Golam Qader.
As a part of AKTEL-Dhaka Travel Mart 2008, a seminar titled "Eco and the newest trend Geo should be the mainstay of Bangladesh tourism" was held at the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel Friday.
In his keynote paper Raquib Siddiqi, Chief Editor of Bangladesh Monitor -- the organiser of the travel mart, said the UNWTO forecast that by 2010, international tourist arrivals will reach 1.0 billion annually. It estimates that already international tourism generating $2.0 billion a day in receipts.
Bangladesh, he said, has wealth of Eco and Geo tourism attractions unknown to many, the country has hill, large coastlines, mangroves, rain forests, marshlands, islands and Sal forests. This diversity makes Bangladesh fairly rich in flora and fauna. The goal of Eco and Geo tourism development in Bangladesh should be to capture a portion of the enormous global tourism market by attracting visitors to natural areas and using the revenues, to fund local conservation and fuel economic development. The need is to bring these into well defined products and market those in tourism generating countries, Siddiqi said in his paper.
Chaired by Editor of Bangladesh Monitor Kazi Wahidul Alam, the seminar was addressed, among others, by ATAB General Secretary MA Bari, Dhaka University's Tourism and Hospitality Management Deptt chairman Ashraful Islam Choudhury and TOAB representative Syed Golam Qader.