Tourism

করোনাভাইরাসের কারণে বেশিরভাগ তারকা হোটেলের অতিথির সংখ্যা শুন্যে নেমে এসেছে। এতে বিপর্যস্ত হোটেলগুলোর ব্যবসা। কর্মকর্তা-কর্মচারীদের বেতন ভাতা দেওয়াও কঠিন হয়ে পড়েছে। এজন্য সরকারের কাছে ৫০০ কোটি টাকা অনুদান চেয়েছেন তারকা হোটেল মালিকেরা। পাশাপাশি সুদ মওকুফ, কর ছাড়,পরিষেবা বিল মওকুফ ও নতুন ঋণে সুবিধাসহ আরও নানা দাবি জানিয়েছেন...

বেসামরিক বিমান পরিবহন ও পর্যটন মন্ত্রণালয়ের প্রতিমন্ত্রী মো. মাহবুব আলী এমপি বলেন, কোভিড-১৯ পরবর্তী সময়ে পর্যটনশিল্প পুনরুদ্ধারে আমাদের অভ্যন্তরীণ পর্যটক একটি বড় শক্তি হিসেবে পরিগণিত হবে। অভ্যন্তরীণ পর্যটকদের মধ্যে মহান মুক্তিযুদ্ধের মাধ্যমে অর্জিত আমাদের প্রিয় মাতৃভূমির দেশীয় পর্যটন আকর্ষণ ও গন্তব্য সম্পর্কে সচেতনতা তৈরি ও তাদের আস্থার...

Bangladesh could see more star hotels in the next five years than what it has seen in the last five decades. But the Covid-19 pandemic has made all that uncertain. Now, many of the upcoming hotel projects would be delayed by a year or...

The government has so far announced a set of stimulus packages worth around $11.90 billion (Taka 1.011 trillion to offset the COVID-19 shock on various sectors of the country and minimise the sufferings of the people hit hard by the nationwide shutdown enforced to fend off the...

Bangladesh expects a bigger inflow of foreign direct investment in the days to come as different nations plan to relocate their factories to countries like Bangladesh to bring down cost amid a cash crunch caused by the pandemic, said Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday. In 2019, the...

British aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce Holdings is considering cutting up to 15% of its workforce, a source close to the company told Reuters, as customers cut production and airlines park planes due to the coronavirus pandemic. The size of layoffs has been mentioned internally...

Some 125 publicly-traded companies in the manufacturing and service sectors have expressed fears of heavy losses due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Among them, 116 companies are in the manufacturing sector, such as RMG, cement, ceramics, engineering, and tannery sector. The other nine are in the real estate and service sector. These companies are...

The domestic tourism industry, hardest hit by coronavirus, has downsized its manpower by 5,085 in the past three months since January, according to a survey. In its report styled 'Impacts on Bangladesh Tourism and TOAB due to COVID-19', the Tour Operators Association of Bangladesh (TOAB) also claimed...

Tourism sector of Bangladesh might face a loss of Tk 60.00 billion from January to December this year due to coronavirus outbreak as the sector has been affected most by the pandemic. The Tour Operator Association of Bangladesh (TOAB), a platform of 678 tour operators of Bangladesh,...

Bangladesh chapter of Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has predicted that overall tourism sector of the country would incur a loss of approximately Tk 97.05 billion from February to next June 2020 due to COVID 19 pandemic. “We have estimated the turnover of entire tourism sector, including...