News Desk :
Thousands of people have thronged the tourism hotspots in Cox’s Bazar taking advantage of a 3-day holiday.
This time, the holidaymakers have turned out fortunate as the weekly holidays and the International Mother Language Day, which is also a public holiday, are three days at a stretch.
It ushered a ray of hope for the tourism related businesses of Cox’s Bazar to make up for the losses they had incurred due to Covid-19 induced shutdown.
Some five lakh tourists were estimated to have flocked to the world’s longest natural sea beach and its adjacent tourism
sites on Friday. All the hotels and resorts were found booked on the day.
Apart from regular forces, additional members of Tourists and District Police have been deployed to ensure safe movement of the tourists in the city.
Mohammadia Guest House Manager Shafiqul Islam said the number of tourists is higher than the accommodating capacity of all hotels and motels.
Those who came here without booking hotel rooms struggled to manage accommodation. The city has accommodating capacity for around 1.5 lakh tourists, but the number of tourists has reached five lakh this time.
Syed Murad Islam, executive magistrate and assistant commissioner (tourism cell) of Cox’s Bazar, said they were doing best to prevent the second wave of coronavirus despite the excessive pressure of tourists.
He said two mobile courts of the district administration have been deployed in the hotel-motel zone to prevent any untoward incident.
