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1. Tourism Bangladesh:
Problems & Prospectus
Zahid Islam

2. Introduction
• Tourism is not a Marely hobby or pass time now a days,
rather it has flourished and able to established itself as a
sector of international Economy and it is termed as Travel
& Tourism Industries (TTI) world wide.
• Bangladesh which is branded as “ Beautiful Bangladesh” is a
land of Royal Bengal Tigers, is not exceptional to this, but it
has not developed to such slandered that it can contributes
to national economy considerably.
• Every country has some historically or naturally important
sights to draw the international attention and overseas
visitor become satiated by going there.

3. Introduction
• Bangladesh is a consequence of a great history, its natural
beauty is very charming, geographically it located in mild
and comfortable weather.
• Some of our neighbors like Srilanka, Maldives, Nepal, India
developed their travel, tourism and recreation sector
tremendously, and this sector contributes a solid portion to
their GDP.
• We have the opportunity to flourish this sector through
proper utilization and management.

4. Tourism world wide and the status of
Bangladesh
• Travel & Tourism’s impact on the economic and social
development of a country can be enormous; opening
it up for business, trade and capital investment, creating
jobs and entrepreneurialism for the workforce and
protecting heritage and cultural values.
• Recent years have seen Travel & Tourism growing at a faster
rate than both the wider economy and other significant
sectors such as automotive, financial services and health care.
• Comparing with the world average the scenario is not
impressive for bangladesh

5. Tourism world wide and the status of
Bangladesh
• T&T generated USD 7.6
trillions which is almost
10% of the worlds economy.
• It created 277 millions of
job opportunity.
• Overseas visitors was 1.14
billion.
• Visitors from emerging
countries was 46%, that
was 36% in 2000.
World Bangladesh
Direct
contribution
2364.80 bn$
(3.1%)
3.70 bn$
(1.9%)
Total
contribution
7580.80 bn$
(10.50%)
7.84bn$
(4.10%)
Direct
employment
10.50 Mn
(3.6%)
0.91 Mn
(1.6%)
Total
employment
276 Mn
(9.40%)
19 Mn
(3.60%)

6. Tourism world wide and the status of
Bangladesh
• Some developed and developing countries, even some LDC
tagged countries economy solely depends on T&T.
• The economy of Egypt, Nepal, Maldives, Thailand, Cambodia,
Peru, Iceland, Switzerland, Malaysia, Maritous, Mozambique,
Zimbabwe are highly benefitted.
• Caribbean Islands, Mediterranean's, South –east Asian
countries and Latin America are the prime destinations for
the tourists.

7. Tourism world wide and the status of
Bangladesh
• There are various types of
tourism based on spots like
Natural Beauty, Historical
significance, Religion
importance, medical
purpose, Games and Sports
events, Shopping's or simply
seasonal recreation etc.
• Bangladesh is very rich in
its tourist resources.
Nature History
Religion Medical
shopping sports

8. Tourism world wide and the status of
Bangladesh
• There are three UNESCO-declayred Heritage sights in
Bangladesh. These are-a) world greatest Mangrove forest,
The Sunder ban, b) The sixty Dome Mosque in Bagerhat and
c) the ruins of Ancient Pundra city of Buddhist civilization.
• Bangladesh is the largest deltaic land in the world.
• World longest(120km) safe sandy sea beach of Cox’s Bazar is
in Bangladesh.
• the Sandeep Island, a former Portuguese pirate stronghold is
located at the estuary of Meghna river.

9. Tourism world wide and the status of
Bangladesh
• Srimangal with miles of tea gardens.
• Dhaka is called the city of mosque.
• Various ethnic and tribal groups lives in various parts of
country, their attractive culture and life pattern is different
and Interesting.
• There are so many ancient Mosque, Hindu Temples and
Pagodas around the Land.

10. Tourism world wide and the status of
Bangladesh
• Bangladesh is a land of river, thre are about 700 rivers.
• There are so many water bodies, locally called Bil, Hour,
Bour and lakes. These are suitable to cruise and angling.
• Moreover Bangladesh has a very rich historical backgrounds,
we the Bangalee the proud decenter of one of the rich
civilizations.

11. Sundarbon
Largest mangrove forest

12. Bandarban
The golden Pagoda

13. Mountain river
Beauty of Sylhet.

14. Kuthibari
Memory of Great Poet
Rabindranath Tagor.

15. Largest Bihar in The world. Aristocracy of Colonial Dhaka

16. St marteens island
nilgiri
Cox bajar

17. Challenges and What to do
• Forty years has elapsed of Bangladesh’s tourism industry, yet
we still see it in a nascent position in comparison to our
neighbouring countries. Despite having all the potential to
flourish, tourism in this country has been growing at a very
slow pace.
• Bangladesh is not known as a tourist destination in the
international tourism market. Only 3 lacs foreign tourists
came to Bangladesh in 2010, of which more than 70
percent came for business and official purposes

18. Challenges and What to do
• The sector got recognition as an industry in 1999. But it
never received attention from the government to become a
vibrant industry.
• Whereas many countries which started much later than
Bangladesh, for example – Maldives, Malaysia, Vietnam,
Cambodia, Laos PDR – have developed their tourism
industry much faster than this country.
• In 1998 Bangladesh received 171,961 tourists and
Cambodia received only 96,000 tourists. After 11 years in
2009, Bangladesh could attract only 267,000 tourists and
Cambodia more than 2 million tourists.

19. Challenges and What to do
• The lack of development of the tourism industry of
Bangladesh can be attributed to multiple reasons like less-
prioritisation of tourism by all previous governments, lack of
budgetary allocation and scarcity of trained people in the
industry.
• There is also a lack of publicity and marketing activities. We
lag behind in projecting our attractions to international
tourists through advertisements in international print and
electronic media, as our neighbouring countries do.

20. Challenges and What to do
• We have to do this for enhancing the positive image of our
country and for introducing our prime tourist attractions as well
as our vibrant culture.
• We need to develop an effective brand name for tourism. We have
never tried to understand that branding not only helps tourism of
the country, it encourages foreign investment as well.
• A tourism branding campaign called ‘Beautiful Bangladesh’ has
been developed, but according to the tourism stakeholders of the
country it does not wholly reflect the tourist attractions of the
country. Tour operators who bring foreign tourists are raising
demands to mend it. Bangladesh, which has so many positive
aspects, needs to rebuild its brand as a country.

21. Challenges and What to do
• Due to the absence of proper planning, even some
infrastructure developments that require a small budget
could not be accomplished. For attracting more foreign
tourists, we need to turn tourist attractions into tourism
products i.e. finished products to sell. Appropriate
infrastructural development, super-structure development,
introduction of waste management systems and
sustainability of the tourist attractions for our future
posterity are most essential.

22. THANKS TO ALL