The contribution of inbound visitors to the national exchequer grew around 59% year-on-year in 2021, thanks to the roll-out of massive vaccination across the South Asian region that also successfully contained the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Earnings from inbound visitors amounted to a little over Tk. 2,279 core last year in contrast to Tk. 1,196 crore in 2020 ((10 months), according to data from the Bangladesh Bank collected by Bangladesh Tourism Board.<\/p>\n
Industry insiders have attributed such a growth mainly to business travellers and foreigners working in Bangladesh or engaged in humanitarian activities as the pandemic had barred leisure tourists from entering the country. <\/p>\n
In 2020 and 2021, leisure tourists hardly visited the country owing to Covid-19. Those who came to the country were foreigners who work in Bangladesh on tourist visas, non-resident Bangladeshis and business travellers, Masud Hossain, an inbound tour operator and managing director of Bengal Tours, told The Business Standard.<\/p>\n
“Last year, altogether 10 people came to Bangladesh for travel purposes via my company. The number was more than 500 before the pandemic hit,” he added.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh Tourism Board has not, however, updated data on international tourist arrival after December 2021, according to sources knowledgeable about the matter.<\/p>\n
To regularly update data of tourist arrivals in the country, the tourism board is now willing to develop a software with the assistance of the special branch of Bangladesh police, emulating the models of countries such as India, the Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.<\/p>\n
In 2020, the inbound tourism sector suffered a 35% negative growth year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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