Resort town makes brisk business in Bangladesh

Resort town makes brisk business
Cox’s Bazar hosts over 1 lakh Eid holidaymakers

More than one lakh tourists gathered in Cox’s Bazar during Eid holidays to cast off the boredom of routine life and spend time in close contact with the nature, boosting the business in the sea resort town.

All the 120 residential hotels and motels and 50 guesthouses were packed up with the tourists amid additional security measures taken by the district administration and the police took during the vacation beginning with the weekly holidays and including the vacation of Eid-ul-Fitr and Durga Puja from September 20 to 22.

Some of the victors reached Cox’s Bazar on September 20th and performed their Eid prayers there while some drove to the sea town to spend one day.

The Cox’s Bazar beach management committee arranged some events including horse-ride, nagardola, speedboats etc for the tourists.

Md Gias Uddin Ahmed, deputy commissioner, Cox’s Bazar, told New Age that the administration including police, tourists police, had taken special security measures for the tourists.

He also mentioned that the tourist spots of Cox’s Bazar, including Dolhazara safari park, historical Ramu Ram court, historical Adinat Mandir at Moheshkhali, Inani, Himchari, Teknaf, St Martins, Sonadia, were the main attractions for the tourists.

Mosharaf Hossen Dulal, president, Cox’s Bazar shell market traders’ association, said hundreds of tourists visited the shell market.