Tourism board
At last, Bangladesh Tourism Board (BTB) has been created in the country. The private tourism stakeholders were demanding for a long time to form BTB. In the body, an academician from the Tourism and Hospitality Department of Dhaka University has been included.
Since its inception in 1972, Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation embarked on some activities for tourism development. The BPC Ordinance gave mandate for promotion and development of tourism, build country's image abroad, acquire and establish tourism infrastructure, organise safari tourism, set up travel agency, train up human resources and regulate the country's tourism industry. Though BPC could not do anything up to the expectation due to many limitations, but it tried at least to educate people about some basic things of tourism.
Now BTB has started functioning. It has already done some works with its sights on the cricket world cup. Here, BTB gets a good chance to showcase the country to the foreigners. It is an opportunity for us to improve the country's image. BTB and BPC - the two bodies - can work with synergy for tourism development in Bangladesh.
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