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India offers jt tourism show with Bangladesh

PALLAB BHATTACHARYA, New Delhi
India has proposed a joint tourism exhibition with Bangladesh to be held in New Delhi as the two countries agreed to promote greater flow of tourists between them.
Indian Tourism Minister Renuka Choudhury made the offer at a meeting with Bangladesh State Minister for Tourism Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin in New Delhi yesterday.
Nasiruddin responded positively to the Indian proposal and said modalities of hosting the event could be worked out later.
Choudhury said that the exhibition would include a fair of Bangladeshi food and culture in order to apprise potential Indian tourists of the tourism potential of Bangladesh.
The two ministers discussed ways and means to tap the potential of bilateral tourism and encourage more people of the two countries to visit each other's tourist destinations.
They recognised that there was considerable scope for increasing the
current volume of tourist traffic between India and Bangladesh.
Earlier, speaking at an international conference on ecotourism organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry here, Nasiruddin called for appropriate strategies for development of ecotourism and its marketing.
The Bangladesh minister laid stress on sharing of information and expertise on ecotourism among the South Asian countries.
As travel and tourism continue to dominate the global economy faced with serious environmental pressures, he asked both visitors and ecotourism managers to accept the responsibility of environmental stewardship.
Since ecotourism marketing and conservation of bio-diversity are complementary to each other, the minister called for a synergy between the two sets of activities in order to make tourism and conservation activities sustainable.
Ecotourism, Nasiruddin pointed out, can stimulate the rural economy by
creating demand for agricultural produce and inject capital into villages through infrastructure development there.
This, in turn, can bring about higher income, revitalise local culture, especially traditional crafts and customs, he added.
Listing the measures taken by Bangladesh government to promote ecotourism, he said 11 eco-parks were set up across the country and Kuakata, Cox's Bazar and the Sundarbans were declared as special tourist zones.
Inaugurating the two-day conference, Indian Tourism Minister Renuka Choudhury said ecotourism embraces the local reality because the real ownership of eco-systems rests with local people and their rich rituals and festivals.
Underscoring the importance of tourism as an employment generator in rural areas, she stressed involving local people in tourism development.