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Transport in Bangladesh. Transport in Bangladesh is dominated by roadways, accounting for the majority of both passenger and cargo traffic due to substantial development efforts since independence. Eight major national highways connect the capital, Dhaka, with divisional and district headquarters, port cities, and international routes.
The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) reported in 2013, that Bangladesh's travel and tourism industry directly generated 1,281,500 jobs in 2012, or 1.8% of the country's total employment, which ranked Bangladesh 102 out of 178 countries worldwide.
Bangladesh Tourism Board. 1. Bangladesh Tourism Board, a member of the UNWTO and PATA, is the National Tourism organization of Bangladesh. . In 2010 Hon'ble Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina established it through the enactment of the Tourism Board Act, 2010. 2.
Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation ( BPC) [2] ( Bengali: বাংলাদেশ পর্যটন করপোরেশন) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Civil Aviation & Tourism of Bangladesh, tasked to promote the tourism industry of the country. It is the National Tourism Organization of the country.
The bridge consists of 41 sections, each 150.12 m (492.5 ft) long and 22 metres (72 ft) wide, with a total length of 6.15 km (3.82 mi). [5] It is the longest bridge over the river Padma ( Padma ), [6] and by extension, Bangladesh. Being the longest bridge by both span and total length, and featuring the deepest pile depth of any bridge in the ...
The economy of Bangladesh is a major developing market economy. [42] As the second-largest economy in South Asia, [43] [44] Bangladesh 's economy is the 35th largest in the world in nominal terms, and 25th largest by purchasing power parity. Bangladesh is seen by various financial institutions as one of the Next Eleven.
Country boats in the haor areas of Sunamganj District. Water transportation is an important means of communication in Bangladesh, a floodplain with approximately 405 rivers [1] and numerous oxbow lakes (locally known as haor ). Traditional country boats are still popular and they provide low cost convenient transport in this extensive inland ...
The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) reported in 2019 that the travel and tourism industry in Bangladesh directly generated 1,180,500 jobs in 2018 or 1.9% of the country's total employment. According to the same report, Bangladesh experiences around 125,000 international tourist arrivals per year. [387]