‘Govt committed to ensuring security of tourists’

State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali today said that the government is committed to ensuring safety and security of both the international and local tourists across the country.

The junior minister made the remarks while addressing at the concluding session of a familiarisation tour for foreign journalists, travel writers, and tour operators in Bangladesh at a city hotel.

He urged the visiting foreign nationals to promote tourism scopes in Bangladesh by writing on their respective newspapers, magazines and television channels upon returning to their own countries.

Bangladesh Tourism Board organised the familiarisation trip as part of which 26 journalists, travel writers and tour operators from the USA, the UK, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Lebanon, China, South Korea and Japan are visiting different attractive tourist spots of Bangladesh.

‘Security beefed up at airports’

Meanwhile, security at all the airports of the country was beefed up today following the gruesome attacks in Sri Lanka yesterday.

The airport security measures have been strengthened today following an order from the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), a top official of Aviation Security (AVSEC) told The Daily Star.

The CAAB directive came after the blasts in Sri Lanka, he said.

Although the law enforcing agencies ensured that there were no security threats in the country at the moment, the security was strengthened as an extra caution, the AVSEC official added.