Int'l Fair In Dhaka Gets Response From Travel Lovers

By Travel Destination 05 Dec, 2022 Post a Comment

A travel agent company executives pose for a photo in their stall at the three-day ‘International Travel and Tourism Expo’ organized by the Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on the concluding day, on Saturday. – New Age photo.

Travel lovers thronged ‘International Travel and Tourism Expo’ on Saturday, the last day of the three-day’ tourism extravaganza, where local and international tour operators, airlines offered a wide range of packages.

Tourism promoters, operators and visitors expected a boom in the country’s tourism industry and earning foreign revenues through the fair as tour operators from more than 15 countries participated in the fair that began on December 1.

The Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh organised the fair at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka while AirAstra was the title sponsor and US-Bangla Airlines was the sponsor of the fair.

ATAB president SN Manzur Murshed (Mahbub) said that the fair would create a business relationship between the tour operators and agents at home and abroad and help exchange their businesses with each other.

ATAB’s secretary general Abdus Salam Aref said that the fair witnessed about 10,000-20,000 visitors who had to enter the fair with a Tk 50 entry fee.

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‘Tour operators are successful to take travellers to some attractive destinations at home and abroad as many visitors booked and bought air tickets and various tour packages at discount cost,’ visitor Nurul Islam Nazem, who is also the deputy team leader of the Preparation of Tourism Master Plan for Bangladesh, told New Age at the site of the fair.

‘Bangladesh has a lot of attractive destinations like the longest sea beach and mangrove forests but foreign nationals are discouraged to visit these places,’ said Lion Umesh Gupta, the chairman of Nepal-based tour agent Abhiwadan Expedition Holidays Private Limited.

Superintendent of police for training and orientation of the Tourist Police Mst Yasmin Khatun told New Age that Tourists Police had about 1,400 members to oversee 1,675 prominent destinations of the country.