Business Desk :
Bangladesh eyes on a new door to open up for holidaymakers offering its Islamic heritage as tourism ministers of OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member state are set to gather in Dhaka this week to discuss various issues regarding Islamic tourism.
“As the first ever host of any OIC tourism ministers gathering, we consider it as an opportunity to promote our tourism potential and heritages to the Muslim world,” Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh Tourism Board (BTB) Dr Nasir Uddin told.
The 10th Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers (ICTM) will take place from February 5 to 7 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel here with the theme – ‘Promoting Regional Integration through Tourism’.
“We are ready to welcome tourism ministers or their representatives from 57 OIC member countries at the meeting to showcase our Islamic heritage in front of the leaders of the Muslim world,” Dr Nasir said.
He said the OIC understands Bangladesh has huge potential in the tourism sector and encouraged Bangladesh to the event and to discuss ways of cooperation among member states.
The conference will discuss core issues including development of Islamic tourism, progress on tourism infrastructure projects, OIC tourism fairs and OIC City of Tourism Award (2019 and 2020).
Referring to the tradition of declaring two cities of OIC member countries as “Capital of Islamic Tourism” at every meeting of ICTM, the BTB chief said the name of Dhaka would be proposed this time to select as capital of Islamic tourism either for 2019 or 2020.
The last 9th session declared Madina and the Iranian Tabriz city as the capitals of Islamic tourism for 2017 and 2018 respectively.
Bangladesh eyes on a new door to open up for holidaymakers offering its Islamic heritage as tourism ministers of OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member state are set to gather in Dhaka this week to discuss various issues regarding Islamic tourism.
“As the first ever host of any OIC tourism ministers gathering, we consider it as an opportunity to promote our tourism potential and heritages to the Muslim world,” Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh Tourism Board (BTB) Dr Nasir Uddin told.
The 10th Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers (ICTM) will take place from February 5 to 7 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel here with the theme – ‘Promoting Regional Integration through Tourism’.
“We are ready to welcome tourism ministers or their representatives from 57 OIC member countries at the meeting to showcase our Islamic heritage in front of the leaders of the Muslim world,” Dr Nasir said.
He said the OIC understands Bangladesh has huge potential in the tourism sector and encouraged Bangladesh to the event and to discuss ways of cooperation among member states.
The conference will discuss core issues including development of Islamic tourism, progress on tourism infrastructure projects, OIC tourism fairs and OIC City of Tourism Award (2019 and 2020).
Referring to the tradition of declaring two cities of OIC member countries as “Capital of Islamic Tourism” at every meeting of ICTM, the BTB chief said the name of Dhaka would be proposed this time to select as capital of Islamic tourism either for 2019 or 2020.
The last 9th session declared Madina and the Iranian Tabriz city as the capitals of Islamic tourism for 2017 and 2018 respectively.
