The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The three-day long Banglalink Bangladesh Travel and Tourism Fair 2007 ended yesterday at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the city.

A large number of people yesterday gathered at the fair and visited the different stalls related to tourism.

Tour Operators Association of Bangladesh (TOAB) organised a concluding ceremony where Nepal Chandra Singh, Tourism Minister of Assam, Sheikh Altaf Ali, Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry Secretary, Himangsha Shekhor Das, Principal Secretary of Assam State Government, Hafizur Rahman, Chairman, Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation and Omar Rashid of Banglalink, among others, addressed the function .

They stressed the need for enhancing the facilities of travelling to strengthen the existing friendly relations among the neighbouring countries.

Travelling from one country to another and people to people contact is a must for building peaceful bilateral relation.

They said, if proper initiatives are taken to develop tourism industries, every year a large number of tourists would come in this region from the western countries.

The natural beauty of these areas is unique in the world, they observed.

Most of the travel and tour operators and other related organisations offered incentives to atract more and more tourists.

Visitors from different ages are seen visiting the different stalls .