BSS-45 Menon for promoting responsible tourism

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Menon for promoting responsible tourism

DHAKA, Dec 19, 2017 (BSS) – Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan
Menon today urged all stakeholders to aware people about responsible tourism
for ensuring sustainability of the country’s tourist places especially nature
sensitive spots like Saint Martin’s Island, Ratargul and Bisanakandi.

“Along with promote tourism, we have to aware people about responsible
tourism for making our tourism spots sustainable,” he said while exchanging
views with different transport owners and other tourism service providers at
Bangladesh Tourism Board (BTB) here.

The minister urged the long-distance transport owners to run visual promo
on responsible tourism at their vehicles while operating them to different
tourist spots like Cox’s Bazar, Hill Tracks, Khulna, Sylhet and Bogura.

The minister said the government is relentlessly working to facilitate
tourism and as a result more than one crore domestic tourists travelled
across the country last year.

Menon urged the private sector to make more investment in the leisure
sector along with the government for providing quality tourism service to the
people.

The bus company owners agreed to screen visual promo at their vehicles as
well as their own stops over restaurants.

Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Ghulam Farooq, BTB CEO Dr M Nasir
Uddin and Director Nikhil Chandra Roy also spoke on the occasion.

Earlier, a visual promo on responsible tourism was screened.

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