The Cox’s Bazar Of Bangladesh - a rising tourist spot in the World: its economic prospects and constraints
Currently Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh has been recognized as a rising tourists’ spot among the fastest growing destinations in the world. Presently it also holds first position in the competition of world’s new seven wonders. In this context, the main initiative of the present study is to focus on t...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/34897/ http://eprints.usm.my/34897/1/HBP25.pdf |
| Summary: | Currently Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh has been recognized as a rising tourists’ spot among the fastest
growing destinations in the world. Presently it also holds first position in the competition of world’s new
seven wonders. In this context, the main initiative of the present study is to focus on the performance of
Bangladesh of tourism in general and in Cox’s Bazar as a major tourist spot of the country in particular.
The study mainly examines potential tourism products of Cox’s Bazar and its nearer areas, performance
of Bangladesh tourism and prevailing constraints and challenges of the same. The study results reveal
that Bangladesh has huge prospects to flourish its economy through tourism and world recognized
heritage ‘Cox’s Bazar’ has many tourism products to attract world-wide tourists’. But due to lack of
resource constraints and other reasons government initiatives are not adequate to develop (specially
infrastructure) tourism in the country and so, this industry still unexplored to most potential tourists’ of
the world. The study concludes that both government and private interventions are vital one to develop
and modernize the Cox’s Bazaar (tourist capital of the country) including other potential spots of
Bangladesh. |
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