The government has decided to form a 25-member National Tourism Coordination Board (NTCB) to promote tourism in the country.
The decision came after a meeting of the Tourism Task Force with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair. The formation of a new government agency is to promote tourism, enhance cooperation between provinces and the federation, formulate provincial regulatory framework, and to promote the country’s tourism at the international level.
Along with the formation of a new agency, the government also decided to reorganize the Pakistan Tourism Development Coordination (PTDC). PTDC properties worth Rs.200 billion will be transferred to the provinces to this effect. PTDC will become the NTCB secretariat as well.
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It was also decided to form special working groups on adventure tourism, religious tourism, cultural, historic and archaeological tourism, Trans-Himalaya Jeep Rally Group, regulatory and policy reforms, infrastructure and facilitation, investment and tourism branding.
The task force also briefed the premier about the progress in the tourism sector. He was apprised that the work on the formation of 20 new tourism sites in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) was also underway.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, Special Assistant to the PM, Iftikhar Durrani, Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Dr. Fehmida Mirza, PM’s Advisor on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfiqar Bukhari, provincial ministers, and members of the task force also attended the meeting.
What the fuck ???
Promoting Tourism is an excellent move, it will not only display positive face of our country and in countering negative perception spread by International media but will be beneficial to economy as lot of countries earn billions of dollars through tourism like Turkey earns 42 Billion and Malaysia around 22.
Promote Tourism to all over Pakistan Not Only One Places / Cities Etc
Ummm what? Do you even know what tourism means and who the target audience is?
what happens to promoting Terrorism? :D :D
Instead of accepting the blunder, Propakistani went ahead and deleted all the previous comments citing the article’s caption typo.
Kis ne kaha ke aamriyat sirf foj ka hi khaasa hai?!
No need of a New Agency; appoint suitable person to head Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC).