Tourism Prospects and Challenges at Sylhet Region in Bangladesh: A Critical Conceptual Review

Abstract

Tourism is one of the world's fastest growing industries as well as the main source of foreign exchange earnings and employment for many emerging countries. Bangladesh has an attractive natural environment and many historical-cultural places, which can be potentially utilized for the development of tourism. The aim of the paper is to explore the tourism prospects and challenges at sylhet region in Bangladesh. The paper is based on secondary data. The data and information have been collected and examined mainly from different published articles and reports, research paper, Bangladesh Tourism Board (BTB), Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC), Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, World Tourism Organization and different websites. The significance of tourism in Bangladesh along with its benefits in socioeconomic development. The improvements from tourism are multidimensional. The results showed that vital tourism prospects of this region are flourish the economy, earn a lot of foreign currency, increase household income, reduce the unemployment problem, develop necessary infrastructures, reduce the economic gap, create better image, reduce regional disparity, create goodwill, and build regional cooperation etc. The study also discovered that major challenges are lack of infrastructure facilities, modern and sufficient recreation facilities, security and safety, proper training and HR, proper planning, marketing and information, product development, tourism awareness, and political instability etc. The paper is constrained in inside of Sylhet and the consequence is attained based on the past studies. The study is wholly prepared based on literature at Sylhet in Bangladesh.

Keywords

• Prospects & Challenges,Tourism industry,Conceptual review,Sylhet,Bangladesh

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