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A massive perspective is that tourist sites are connected to sea routes.
For a country with the world’s largest mangrove forest, Chittagong Harbour, Cox’s Bazar Sandy Beach, the beautiful Teknaf Peninsula and the beautiful island of St. Martin, maritime tourism can beat the Covid-19 blues by generating billions of dollars. All that is needed is a built-in initiative to unite those popular destinations through maritime terminals, according to experts.
“Bangladesh has great potential in the maritime tourism sector. We just want a built-in initiative that generates physically powerful economic growth,” Dr. Md Kawser Ahmed, a professor in dhaka University’s Department of Oceanography, told UNB.
“We can make billions of dollars in maritime tourism if the Sundarbans, Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Teknaf and Saint Martin Island are connected,” he added.
While maritime tourism has a view to helping Bangladesh achieve the prestige of an evolved country until 2041, the government takes appropriate measures, such as setting environmental taxes for tourists at the same time, not only to generate revenue, but also to protect the country’s valuable resources, according to Dr. Md Kawser.
“We propose to the government to set Tk500 for a tourist landing on the island of Saint Martin and a minimum of Tk1,000 each night as an environmental tax. We hope tourists will pay with pleasure. We also paid a toll tax on the Padma Bridge as well as Jamuna Bridge,” he said, and also emphasized the desire to introduce diving into St. Louis. Martin to attract tourists.
The professor said that Bangladesh may be a destination of choice for foreign tourists in South Asia.
“Bangladesh can take a long-term initiative to link Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and India with sea routes. Government-to-government agreements are needed to be a success,” he said.
The director of studies at the Center for Political Dialogue (CPD), Dr. Khandoker Golam Moazzem, said tourism is necessary in the country, but at the expense of the environment.
“We want to put the environment first. We destroy our resources in the call of tourism. We also want to conserve coral,” he added.
Dr. Khandoker said the government wishes to embark on a long-term plan to fly passenger ships in the seas while putting nature first.
“If the plan is adopted, national and regional tourists will make the site and tourism sector a vital role in Bangladesh’s economy,” the economist said.
Shiblul Azam Koreshi, the owner of Abakash Parjatan on the island of St. Martin, he said the island isn’t that exciting for tourists these days.
“About 2,000 tourists make a stopover on the island daily during the high season (December to February). Today, few domestic tourists make a stopover on the island due to bad weather and the Covid-19 pandemic,” he said.
The Vice-President of the Bangladesh Tourism Operators Association (TOAB) also said maritime tourism will bring Bangladesh’s economy to life. “The government is building a tourist domain in Teknaf’s Sabrang. Now tourists can enjoy the Bay of Bengal, the longest sea route in the world. . “
“The government focuses on the blue economy to succeed over the economic crisis. Since Bangladesh won the case of the maritime border with Myanmar and India before the International Tribunal, there is no challenge in the Bay of Bengal. The ocean economy, known as the blue economy,” also provides opportunities in the fields of fishing, mineral resources, shipping and energy,” he said.
Shiblul said there are now 150 Abakash and 70 restaurants on the island of St. Martin. ” The government also deserves to install a ‘waste disposal plant’ here as soon as possible. In addition, solar capacity deserves to be increased to remove darkness from the site,” he said.
Bangladesh has the right to fish and explore resources within 118,813 square kilometers of the Bay of Bengal. Sources said that the ocean contributes around $ 6. 0 billion a year to the Bangladesh economy. The gross aggregate price (GVA) of the Bangladesh ocean economy $ 6. 2 billion in 2015.
The overall contribution of tourism and the sector to Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP) was 840. 2 billion taka, or 4. 3% of the country’s GDP in 2016, according to the knowledge of the Bangladesh Institute for Foreign Trade (BFTI).
According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), the sector is expected to grow by 7. 1% per year, bringing the total contribution to 1783 billion taka, or 4. 7% of the country’s GDP by 2027.
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