Economic Reporter :
Tourism, a new development focus of the United Nations, can stimulate the achievement of several targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within 2030, Tourism Ministry officials and its stakeholders observed on Wednesday.
“Tourism is not merely confined within travel only. It now holds a big canvas than include health tourism, cultural tourism, archaeological tourism, adventure tourism, etc,” Mohammad Rafiquzzaman, additional secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, said at a function here.
Planning Unit of the Ministry organized the function with an objective to finalize its work plan to achieve SDGs in future-goals 8, 12 and 14 in particular. These three goals are among the 17 SDGs set by the United Nations last year as benchmarks for development of the world in next 15 years. The SDGs are the extension of Millennium Development Goals, better known as MDGs, which ran for another 15 years between 2001 and 2015.
Rafiquzzaman said the expansion and popularization of tourism could be a major engine of growth for national economic development as well as employment generation in the years ahead. “All that we need to see,” he said, “whether the tourism is flourishing in a sustainable manner or not.”
Among others, Deputy Director of Governance Innovation Unit of the Prime Minister’s Office Mohammad Solaiman and Assistant Chief of General Economic Division Syed Ali Bin Hassan also spoke on the occasion.
Representatives from Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, Bangladesh Parjatan Board and Bangladesh Services Limited took part in the meeting, according to an official release.
Tourism, a new development focus of the United Nations, can stimulate the achievement of several targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within 2030, Tourism Ministry officials and its stakeholders observed on Wednesday.
“Tourism is not merely confined within travel only. It now holds a big canvas than include health tourism, cultural tourism, archaeological tourism, adventure tourism, etc,” Mohammad Rafiquzzaman, additional secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, said at a function here.
Planning Unit of the Ministry organized the function with an objective to finalize its work plan to achieve SDGs in future-goals 8, 12 and 14 in particular. These three goals are among the 17 SDGs set by the United Nations last year as benchmarks for development of the world in next 15 years. The SDGs are the extension of Millennium Development Goals, better known as MDGs, which ran for another 15 years between 2001 and 2015.
Rafiquzzaman said the expansion and popularization of tourism could be a major engine of growth for national economic development as well as employment generation in the years ahead. “All that we need to see,” he said, “whether the tourism is flourishing in a sustainable manner or not.”
Among others, Deputy Director of Governance Innovation Unit of the Prime Minister’s Office Mohammad Solaiman and Assistant Chief of General Economic Division Syed Ali Bin Hassan also spoke on the occasion.
Representatives from Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, Bangladesh Parjatan Board and Bangladesh Services Limited took part in the meeting, according to an official release.
