Saudi tourism boosts presence in Bangladesh, targets 3 million visitors by 2030

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DHAKA: The Saudi Tourism Authority is establishing a representative office in Bangladesh, its Asia-Pacific president told Arab News on Thursday. The authority hopes to attract more than 3 million Bangladeshi travelers to the Kingdom by 2030. The STA was part of a Saudi delegation, led by Hajj...

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• STA was part of Saudi Hajj and Umrah minister’s delegation to Dhaka this week
• Earlier this year, the STA ran an extensive promotional campaign in neighboring India

Updated 26 August 2023
SHEHAB SUMON
August 25, 2023 16:01
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DHAKA: The Saudi Tourism Authority is establishing a representative office in Bangladesh, its Asia-Pacific president told Arab News on Thursday. The authority hopes to attract more than 3 million Bangladeshi travelers to the Kingdom by 2030.

The STA was part of a Saudi delegation, led by Hajj and Umrah Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, that visited Dhaka this week to launch the Kingdom’s flagship Nusuk initiative and to sign agreements with Bangladeshi authorities to boost ties between the two countries.

Nusuk is an e-visa and booking platform that allows pilgrims to create itineraries for Makkah, Madinah and beyond, and helps them arrange their visit.

While it was launched to streamline the Umrah journey for Bangladeshis, the STA also hopes they will visit the Kingdom’s heritage and nature sites.

“Our ambition is to attract more than 3 million Bangladeshis by 2030 ... it is a very important market for us,” Alhasan Al-Dabbagh, STA president for Asia-Pacific markets, told Arab News in an interview in Dhaka on Thursday.

“(So far this year) we have welcomed more than 300,000 Bangladeshis to Saudi Arabia. Most of them are coming for Umrah, but also there are people who are coming to visit their family and friends. There are people who are coming for business as well.”

After an extensive promotional campaign in India earlier this year — which aimed to attract more than 12 million Indian visitors to Saudi Arabia by 2030 — during this week’s visit, the STA has signed agreements to boost its presence in Bangladesh.

“We’re doing a lot here. First of all, we’re establishing a rep office. We’re working now very closely with our trade partners, tour operators and travel agents,” Al-Dabbagh said.

The launch of Nusuk, extended visas for Umrah, and new transit visas for Bangladeshis, make Umrah easier than ever before and allow visitors to travel beyond the holy sites of Makkah and Madinah.

“Saudi has six UNESCO World Heritage sites. It has more than 10,000 archeological sites. And its topography is very diverse,” Al-Dabbagh said. “You have the big cities like Jeddah and Riyadh.

You have the desert experiences. You have the beautiful Red Sea with its rich, colorful coral reef. And you have the mountains of Asir in the south, where the weather is always cool the entire year.”

Tourism is a booming sector in the Kingdom under Saudi Vision 2030, a key part of which is to position Saudi Arabia as a dynamic, diverse, year-round tourism destination. The plan is for tourism to contribute 10 percent to gross domestic product by 2030.

“This is why we are here today: to raise awareness of the offerings and experiences that we have in Saudi Arabia,” Al-Dabbagh said.

 

[saif]

Why can't we make some plans to attract 3 million Saudi tourists to Bangladesh? We have the longest natural sea beach in Cox's Bazar which is alone capable of attracting millions of tourists from the outside world.

 

[IndianLite]

Saudi tourism boosts presence in Bangladesh, targets 3 million visitors by 2030​

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DHAKA: The Saudi Tourism Authority is establishing a representative office in Bangladesh, its Asia-Pacific president told Arab News on Thursday. The authority hopes to attract more than 3 million Bangladeshi travelers to the Kingdom by 2030. The STA was part of a Saudi delegation, led by Hajj...

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• STA was part of Saudi Hajj and Umrah minister’s delegation to Dhaka this week
• Earlier this year, the STA ran an extensive promotional campaign in neighboring India

Updated 26 August 2023
SHEHAB SUMON
August 25, 2023 16:01
3053

DHAKA: The Saudi Tourism Authority is establishing a representative office in Bangladesh, its Asia-Pacific president told Arab News on Thursday. The authority hopes to attract more than 3 million Bangladeshi travelers to the Kingdom by 2030.

The STA was part of a Saudi delegation, led by Hajj and Umrah Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, that visited Dhaka this week to launch the Kingdom’s flagship Nusuk initiative and to sign agreements with Bangladeshi authorities to boost ties between the two countries.

Nusuk is an e-visa and booking platform that allows pilgrims to create itineraries for Makkah, Madinah and beyond, and helps them arrange their visit.

While it was launched to streamline the Umrah journey for Bangladeshis, the STA also hopes they will visit the Kingdom’s heritage and nature sites.

“Our ambition is to attract more than 3 million Bangladeshis by 2030 ... it is a very important market for us,” Alhasan Al-Dabbagh, STA president for Asia-Pacific markets, told Arab News in an interview in Dhaka on Thursday.

“(So far this year) we have welcomed more than 300,000 Bangladeshis to Saudi Arabia. Most of them are coming for Umrah, but also there are people who are coming to visit their family and friends. There are people who are coming for business as well.”

After an extensive promotional campaign in India earlier this year — which aimed to attract more than 12 million Indian visitors to Saudi Arabia by 2030 — during this week’s visit, the STA has signed agreements to boost its presence in Bangladesh.

“We’re doing a lot here. First of all, we’re establishing a rep office. We’re working now very closely with our trade partners, tour operators and travel agents,” Al-Dabbagh said.

The launch of Nusuk, extended visas for Umrah, and new transit visas for Bangladeshis, make Umrah easier than ever before and allow visitors to travel beyond the holy sites of Makkah and Madinah.

“Saudi has six UNESCO World Heritage sites. It has more than 10,000 archeological sites. And its topography is very diverse,” Al-Dabbagh said. “You have the big cities like Jeddah and Riyadh.

You have the desert experiences. You have the beautiful Red Sea with its rich, colorful coral reef. And you have the mountains of Asir in the south, where the weather is always cool the entire year.”

Tourism is a booming sector in the Kingdom under Saudi Vision 2030, a key part of which is to position Saudi Arabia as a dynamic, diverse, year-round tourism destination. The plan is for tourism to contribute 10 percent to gross domestic product by 2030.

“This is why we are here today: to raise awareness of the offerings and experiences that we have in Saudi Arabia,” Al-Dabbagh said.

Saudi tourists or terrorists?

How can we tell the difference?

 

[Saiful Islam]

Saudi tourists or terrorists?

How can we tell the difference?

Stop your bs. Don't say things you would not say in real life.

Why can't we make some plans to attract 3 million Saudi tourists to Bangladesh? We have the longest natural sea beach in Cox's Bazar which is alone capable of attracting millions of tourists from the outside world.

Saudis are the type to look for the next high or a drink, which will be hard for them to find or not the correct type of high. They like a country to be a mix of harami and Muslim. For example if you explore Bosnia many Kuwaitis and Saudis.

Saudis like to live lavish and accessibility to lavishness in Bangladesh is hard you have to go to specific places.

 

[IndianLite]

Stop your bs. Don't say things you would not say in real life

Is that a threat?

Will someone turn up with a bonesaw

Thank god Bangladesh has the RAB to put down Jamati ideology!!

 

[saif]

Saudis like to live lavish and accessibility to lavishness in Bangladesh is hard you have to go to specific places.

Saudis live a lavish life because they have oil money. Unfortunately, we don't have oil money to live a lavish life like the Saudis.

 

[Saiful Islam]

Is that a threat?

Will someone turn up with a bonesaw

Thank god Bangladesh has the RAB to put down Jamati ideology!!

What a nerdy response, I simply said don't say things you wouldn't say in real life. No you went into the little nerd you are and mentioned a bonesaw? A bonesaw? Lmao. Stick to your messed up American Hindi Bengalish "ah my gard das so cool doood"

You're an absolute goon. I'm just saying, you wouldn't say these things in real life so best to stay true to your self instead of wobbling your little Willy around the forum.

Easy now lad.

 

[RealDeal]

Why can't we make some plans to attract 3 million Saudi tourists to Bangladesh? We have the longest natural sea beach in Cox's Bazar which is alone capable of attracting millions of tourists from the outside world.

It matters not what the length of the beach, but what the beach looks like, plus the culture and atmosphere of the place.

This is what a beach in the carribean looks like

This is your coxs beach

Who in the right mind would come to this cesspit. Forget million, this place can't attract 1000 foreign tourists. You neither have a nice looking beach, nor do you have the culture for it. Even if your beach looked like the one in the first picture, still no one would come since you dont have a tropical beach culture.

No one wants to come to some shitty beach and see poor people in the tens of thousands just roaming about. People go to each and every South Asian country- India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, just not Bangladesh, you literally have nothing to offer -no beach, no snowy mountains, no food, no historical monuments, nothing, just a blank slate. At best they will come to see Bengal tiger which they can spot in West Bengal or to buy chaddi.

 

[@blue Ocean]

It matters not what the length of the beach, but what the beach looks like, plus the culture and atmosphere of the place.

This is what a beach in the carribean looks like

This is your coxs beach

Who in the right mind would come to this cesspit. Forget million, this place can't attract 1000 foreign tourists. You neither have a nice looking beach, nor do you have the culture for it. Even if your beach looked like the one in the first picture, still no one would come since you dont have a tropical beach culture.

No one wants to come to some shitty beach and see poor people in the tens of thousands just roaming about. People go to each and every South Asian country- India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, just not Bangladesh, you literally have nothing to offer -no beach, no snowy mountains, no food, no historical monuments, nothing, just a blank slate. At best they will come to see Bengal tiger which they can spot in West Bengal or to buy chaddi.

Our beaches are famous for songs presented by high-pitch loudspeakers. And our people think that civilized foreign tourists to flock to Cox’s Bazar beach to hear those songs.

Why? It is because

I have been also to a Malaysian beach in Paka peninsular hardly 300m long. Meridian Club operates that.

Malaysian citizens are not allowed. I was admitted because I am a foreigner. There are cottages. I do not think foreigners would ever flock to that CxBazar beach, the locals would disturb them.

They will not come even if a part of beach is segregated by stone walls. Our local uncivilized boys would trespass them and take pictures.

 

[saif]

It matters not what the length of the beach, but what the beach looks like, plus the culture and atmosphere of the place.

This is what a beach in the carribean looks like

This is your coxs beach

Who in the right mind would come to this cesspit. Forget million, this place can't attract 1000 foreign tourists. You neither have a nice looking beach, nor do you have the culture for it. Even if your beach looked like the one in the first picture, still no one would come since you dont have a tropical beach culture.

No one wants to come to some shitty beach and see poor people in the tens of thousands just roaming about. People go to each and every South Asian country- India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, just not Bangladesh, you literally have nothing to offer -no beach, no snowy mountains, no food, no historical monuments, nothing, just a blank slate. At best they will come to see Bengal tiger which they can spot in West Bengal or to buy chaddi.

Foreign tourists would visit India even more if they did not smell shit all around because you fu*cking Indian defecate in the open and drink piss.

 

[CallSignMaverick]

Foreign tourists would visit India even more if they did not smell shit all around because you fu*cking Indian defecate in the open and drink piss.

Goa airport alone handles more passenger traffic than your entire aviation sector does, so keep your uneducated cope with you, but given your posting history of trolling and denial of obvious, I find it difficult for a poster like you to keep the cope within.

 

[Species]

Foreign tourists would visit India even more if they did not smell shit all around because you fu*cking Indian defecate in the open and drink piss.

Whatever foreign tourists India get, half of them are Bangladeshis who only go there to buy cheap saaris.

The other half are Western tourists who only go there to rent cheap wombs.

 

[RealDeal]

Our beaches are famous for songs presented by high-pitch loudspeakers. And our people think that civilized foreign tourists to flock to Cox’s Bazar beach to hear those songs.

Why? It is because

I have been also to a Malaysian beach in Paka peninsular hardly 300m long. Meridian Club operates that.

Malaysian citizens are not allowed. I was admitted because I am a foreigner. There are cottages. I do not think foreigners would ever flock to that CxBazar beach, the locals would disturb them.

They will not come even if a part of beach is segregated by stone walls. Our local uncivilized boys would trespass them and take pictures.

I think that banning locals is not a good thing, it is like colonialism, but i get your point. It is better that a private resort buys a beach and allows anyone who can afford- tourist or local. That will keep all lafangas and hawkers out.

In this case however, even that wont work, the beach simply doesnt have the looks- palm trees, white sand, turquoise water etc, like you would find on beaches in malaysia, maldives etc

Malaysia, Maldives and Indonesia are also flexible with their laws - they allow alcohol for tourists and they have a well developed tourist industry- thousands of resorts, restaurants etc to chose from, Bangladesh doesnt have that.

 

[Saiful Islam]

It matters not what the length of the beach, but what the beach looks like, plus the culture and atmosphere of the place.

This is what a beach in the carribean looks like

This is your coxs beach

Who in the right mind would come to this cesspit. Forget million, this place can't attract 1000 foreign tourists. You neither have a nice looking beach, nor do you have the culture for it. Even if your beach looked like the one in the first picture, still no one would come since you dont have a tropical beach culture.

No one wants to come to some shitty beach and see poor people in the tens of thousands just roaming about. People go to each and every South Asian country- India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, just not Bangladesh, you literally have nothing to offer -no beach, no snowy mountains, no food, no historical monuments, nothing, just a blank slate. At best they will come to see Bengal tiger which they can spot in West Bengal or to buy chaddi.

Gunpreet Ji, that picture of cox bazar looks more inhabitable that any place in India trust me. When Joanna Lumley lands in India the first thing she says is "Oh how pungent the smell is" (Varanasi). Anyways Bangladesh may not offer snowy mountains, or blue beaches but boy let me tell you something your country is a real life toilet. Whilst the average Bangladeshi man can wash his *** with a bidet or hose the average Indian man has probably smothered his faeces on his face.

Don't let the blue beaches of South India or anything picturesque take your mind off the dire situation in India.

 

[RealDeal]

Gunpreet Ji, that picture of cox bazar looks more inhabitable that any place in India trust me. When Joanna Lumley lands in India the first thing says is "Oh how pungent the smell is" (Varanasi). Anyways Bangladesh may not offer snowy mountains, or blue beaches but boy let me tell you something your country is a real life toilet. Whilst the average Bangladeshi man can wash his *** with a bidet or hose the average Indian man has probably smothered his faeces on his face.

Don't let the blue beaches of South India or anything picturesque take your mind off the dire situation in India.

Lmao, it might look inhabitable for you since you are used to it, to the rest of us its a cesspit. I have seen videos of dhaka, its the biggest shithole in the world, even someone from Bihar cant imagine living there. Its constantly ranked among the 10 most shithole places in the world

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/dhaka/285562/dhaka-ranks-below-war-torn-kyiv-in-list-of-least

The worst looking beaches in India are better looking than this beach, even some pollluted beach like Juhu beach is better looking than this. Its Bangladesh thats the real toilet all swamp with turd face ugly people like Hero Alom. Look at this amazing bangladeshi toilet that you Lungis consider open defecation free

Most of you people shit in these straught into the river, no bidet no nithing.

India has plenty of nice beaches in goa, andamans, kerala, lakshadweep etc, no one goes to Varanasi for a beach experience.

I wont bother posting more pics, there are thousands like this in the andamand itself, all of them make bangladesh look like a toilet.