Bangladesh will host SAARC Tourism Mart in December this year to project entire South Asia as a single brand of tourist destination in front of the international tourists.
'As per decision of SAARC tourism ministerial on tourism in Colombo in 2009, we will organise the SAARC tourism fair in Dhaka in December next,' civil aviation and tourism minister G M Quader told the news agency on Wednesday.
National tourism organisations and many tour operators of all eight member states of the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — will participate at the mega tourism fair.
The finance ministry has already allocated Tk five crore to the civil aviation and tourism ministry to organise the fair, expected to be inaugurated by prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Source : New Age
