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BTB to hold tourism workshops for 64 districts
DHAKA, July 16, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladesh Tourism Board (BTB) has
taken initiative to hold separate workshop for 64 districts involving
local stakeholders for including tourism in local development plan as
well as ensuring participation of all in formulation of ‘Tourism
Master Plan’.
Officials including district administration, police super, civil
surgeon, public works executive engineer, district council executive
officer, district tourism committee members, upazila chairman, union
chairman, upazila nirbahi officer, forest officer will join the
virtual workshops on behalf of their respective districts.
Apart from the government representatives of private sectors
including local tour operators, hotel, resort, restaurants and
transport owners, travel agents, teachers and journalists will also
join the workshop, a press release said here.
In this regard, state minister of civil aviation and tourism M
Mahbub Ali said the initiative will play important role in ensuring
participation of all stakeholders in formulating the tourism master
plan that has been under preparation with the instruction of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Mentioning that tourism will be a major sector in recovering the
economic during post COVID era, Ali said the BTB has plan to inform
the stakeholders about the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on how
the tourism sector to be operational amid and after the pandemic.
The UNWTO has released a set of guidelines recently to help the
tourism sector emerge stronger and more sustainably from the pandemic
while WHO released interim operational guidance on COVID-19 management
in the accommodation sector.
Earlier, local travel and tourism service providers urged the
government to place a specific incentive guideline to support the
country’s entire aviation and leisure industry as the ongoing global
standoff due to COVID-19 pandemic sent the sector into tailspin.
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