Pakistan Tourism Development Coperation Launch Friends Club To Facilitate Tourists

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Pakistan Tourism Development Coperation launch Friends Club to facilitate tourists

Pakistan Tourism Development C operation (PTDC) has formed Pakistan Tourism Friends Club in order to facilitate domestic and international tourists in providing them better facilities.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Sep, 2018 ) :Pakistan Tourism Development Coperation (PTDC) has formed Pakistan Tourism Friends Club in order to facilitate domestic and international tourists in providing them better facilities.

Talking to APP here Tuesday, an official said the purpose of the Club is to promote tourism-related activity in the country and provide better facilities to local public. "National and international multi-national companies were also being approached to get PTDC motels and other sites up gradated and beautified," he said.

The official said, PTDC was keen to promote tourism and various steps had been taken for promoting tourism. "For this purpose a tour bus service was also introduced. The quality of PTDC services had also been improved considerably," he said.

He said, PTDC was encouraging the local and foreign investors to come forward and invest in the sector.

"Efforts were being made to facilitate pilgrims coming to Pakistan to visit religious places of Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhs as religious tourism would never end," he said. He further said, "We are also trying to facilitate domestic tourists, overseas Pakistanis and foreign tourists. I have divided tourism into different sectors like Religious, Economic, Agriculture, sports, Culture and Medical Tourism so that solid steps could be taken to promote all sectors," he said.

He urged media particularly electronic channels to promote tourism by highlighting tourist and cultural places of Pakistan so that the number of foreign tourists could further be enhanced.

To a question he said, the National Tourism Strategy Workshop was organized in which all the stakeholders participated and presented their recommendations. He said, PTDC was going to adopt a comprehensive strategy to promote tourism at national level.