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Tourism in Bangladesh: Present Status and Future Prospects

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  • Sanjay Chandra Roy
  • Mallika Roy

    (Department of Economics, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh)

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Bangladesh is full of natural beauty. Rivers, coasts and beaches, archaeological sites, religious places, hills, forests, waterfalls, tea gardens surround it. The Sundarban, Historic Mosque in city of Bagerhat, Ruins of the Buddihist Vihara at Paharpur are the three world heritage sites in Bangladesh among 1007. To observe the beauty of nature, huge amount of domestic and foreign tourists visit the country and its tourist attraction sites. In 2012, around six-lakh (6 hundred thousand) tourists came Bangladesh to visit and enjoy its beauty. The total contribution of tourism to GDP was 4.4%, 3.8% to employment and 1.5% to investment in 2013. Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) looks after the tourism sector in Bangladesh under the ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism. Due to some limitations, Bangladesh has failed to introduce itself as a tourist destination country. The paper tries to focus on the attractive tourist spots of Bangladesh and the contribution of tourism in the Bangladesh economy. The major concern of the writer is to highlight the factors by which Bangladesh can be one of the major tourist attractive country in the world in near future.

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  • Sanjay Chandra Roy & Mallika Roy, 2015. "Tourism in Bangladesh: Present Status and Future Prospects," International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration, Inovatus Services Ltd., vol. 1(8), pages 53-61, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:mgs:ijmsba:v:1:y:2015:i:8:p:53-61
    DOI: 10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.18.1006
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    1. Gualter Couto & Rui Alexandre Castanho & Carlos Santos & Pedro Pimentel & Áurea Sousa & Sandra Faria & Maria da Graça Batista, 2021. "Guidelines for Tourism Sustainability in Ultra-Peripheral Territories: A Research Based on the Azores Region’s Touristic Companies’ Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-15, April.
    2. Chen, Liang & Guo, Yirong, 2023. "Revisiting resources extraction perspective in determining the tourism industry: Globalisation and human capital for next-11 economies," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 85(PA).
    3. Islam, Md Wasiul & Sarker, Tapan, 2022. "Sustainable Coastal and Maritime Tourism: A Potential Blue Economy Avenue for Bangladesh," ADBI Working Papers 1293, Asian Development Bank Institute.
    4. Basharat HOSSAIN & Syed Naimul WADOOD, 2020. "Potential Unexplored? Tourism and Economic Growth of Bangladesh," Journal of Tourismology, Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 6(1), pages 63-77, June.
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