Policy Overview for Bangladesh Tourism

Sayeda, Takrima; Shetu, Samia Afrin; Shoeb-Ur-Rahman, Muhammad

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-7014-8_1

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“…However, in recent days, tourism geographies have been playing a tremendous role in the development and socio-economic growth of Bangladesh. Bangladesh has unique tourism geographies in the world because it has ancient archaeological sites, medieval monasteries, cultural and religious places, the world’s largest sea beach at the south-eastern part, the world’s largest mangrove forest—the Sundarbans at the south-western part, and naturally diversified Sylhet region attracting both national and international tourists (Sayeda et al, 2020 ). The economic size of the tourism geographies of Bangladesh constitutes approximately BDT 500 million, with total revenue of USD$1157 billion from 2009 up to 2019.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tourism geographies of Bangladesh: study on Sylhet region

Sufian

Hoque

2022

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This qualitative study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism geographies of Sylhet region in Bangladesh developing analytical linkages between pandemic and tourism geography. On the basis of in-depth interviews, the study explores micro effects on diverse actors involved in the tourism process of Sylhet division. As one of the emerging tourism hubs, why Sylhet region demands special treatment from local, national and international authorities and policymakers to mitigate the adverse effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, has been investigated in this paper. However, the central argument of the study is that the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the demand and supply chains, local businesses, transportations, hotels and restaurants, tea industry, corporations, and local professional lives due to the imposed restrictions on human mobility, causing a sharp decline in socio-economic activities of Sylhet’s tourism geographies.

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confidence: 99%