2024-09-19 05:16:27
The 11th Asian Tourism Fair 2024 is starting from September 19-21 in Dhaka to revive the tourism industry.
This fair will be held for three days at International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka. The fair will run from 10 am to 8 pm every day. The fair will be inaugurated on September 19 at 3 pm.
The date of the fair was announced at a press conference held at a hotel in the capital on Tuesday (September 17). The press conference was informed that, in continuation of the previous year, Bangladesh Tourism Corporation, Bangladesh Tourism Board, Tourist Police, under the general direction of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, organized the tourism fair. The 11th Asian Tourism Fair 2024 is being held in collaboration with Bangladesh. About a hundred tourism organizations from Bangladesh, Maldives, China, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Bhutan, Singapore will participate in this year’s fair.
The fair will have various attractive travel offers, hotels, resorts or package bookings for the coming tourism season, including special discounts. The participating companies include hotels, motels, resorts, cruise lines, airlines, tour operators and theme parks and many other entertainment companies. Various events will include seminars on tourism, drawing competitions for children, business to business (BTUBI) meetings. The fair will have cultural programs from China, Philippines and Bangladesh every evening. Through this fair, a complete picture of the tourism industry will be presented to the visitors.
The entrance fee of the fair is 30 rupees. Raffle draw winners will have attractive gift vouchers for travel along with airline tickets against entry coupons.
Mohiuddin Helal, editor of Tourism Bichitra and chairman of Asian Tourism Fair, said in the press conference that one of the objectives of organizing this fair is to make the tourism attractions of Bangladesh more popular among the people of the country and abroad and to build a bridge with the regional tourism industry in order to speed up the tourism industry.
He also said that Bangladesh, with its natural beauty and diversity, can be an attractive travel destination for domestic and foreign tourists. Tourism is a multidimensional industry. Tourism industry is an important and infinite potential medium considering priority for sustainable development of Bangladesh. For this, government and private initiatives and sincere efforts are needed.
Tourism industry officials were present at the press conference.