Toursim outlooks

Dhaka outshines its peers in hospitality market

Many a worry has been posed on the tourism of Bangladesh. Comparisons have been made with other countries with thriving Tourism and Hospitality industry. With last year's politically thwarted holiday season, all these woes were nothing but almost confirming evidence of the industry's struggling reality.

This season however, holiday businesses are looking confident again. A new report has already found Dhaka's average hotel occupancy to be the fastest growing hospitality market in the South Asian region. The region's occupancy average is 69% with an annual rate of return of US $153. A US based research group focusing on hospitality, Bangladesh has found to have outstanding potential for development in this sector.

Tourism in Durga Puja

Hoteliers expect influx of tourists during Durga Puja

A new week and a new day for everyone, and already many have been looking forward to the upcoming Durga Puja festival; along with its associated holiday. This time, the holiday has been turned longer coupled with the weekend, as it fell on a Thursday. Considering such a vacationing opportunity people have already started their bookings in tourist regions. The biggest religious festival for Benglai Hindus and the second biggest festival nationally after the Eids, tourist places like Coxs Bazar, Rangamati, Bandarban, Sundarban, etc have already received hotel bookings from the holiday-makers to enjoy with their friends and family. 

Many West Bengal tourists are also applying for visa to celebrate with family in Bangladesh. As much as a thousand visa applications per day have been lodged in the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Kolkata. 

Tourism in terror

Tourism takes a blow from killings of foreigners 

It was expected that the end of political unrest in Bangladesh will be able to revive the hard-hit tourism sector, which saw dwindling business from December 2013, two years ago. After political situation returned to cool after early 2015, tourist operators were expecting good business in the coming peak season from October to March. A different set of unrest however, emerged in the form of two international nationals’ murders which have been rumored to be the work of the Islamic State (IS). Linked or otherwise, in the