Skip to content
  • Home
  • About us
  • Email US
  • Pakistan Tours
  • Umrah Packages
  • Pakistan Guide
Pakistan Travel & Culture

Pakistan Travel & Culture

Pakistan Travel & Tourism, culture, history and news articles.

Diplomats can play role for promoting tourism – MD PTDC

Posted on December 28, 2012 By Jamal Panhwar No Comments on Diplomats can play role for promoting tourism – MD PTDC

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 – Islamabad—Diplomats can play vital role for promoting Pakistan’s tourist destinations in their respective countries.

This was stated by Managing Director Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation Mir Shahjahan Khetran here on the occasion of reception hosted by PTDC in honour of diplomats.

He said that UNWTO has launched a new campaign on 13th December titled “One Billion Tourists – One billion opportunities”.

Pakistan has also joined this campaign by collecting comments and remarks of tourists for improvement in tourism sector who shall visit our Tourist Information Centres, Hotels and Motels.

He appraised the audience that Pakistan has a variety of products to offer to visitors from the all over the world. Mountains, white water sports, hiking areas in Pakistan are ideal for adventure tourists, valleys, deserts, beaches for nature lovers, Buddhist heritage sites of Gandhara, Sikh sacred shrines, Hindu holy temples, Indus valley civilization sites are best-suited for pilgrims, scholars and students.

Cosmopolitan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi/ Islamabad offer an attractive mix of culture, heritage, modernity and countless shopping opportunities.

Pakistan’s Himalayan hill stations of Murree, Bhurban, Patriata, Ayubia and Nathiagali are a delightful summer retreat.

He informed that Pakistan is already providing visa on arrival facility to tourist groups from 24 countries.

More interaction between public and private sector tourism organizations and increased participation in tourism exhibitions and conferences would also be sought.

He added that PTDC being a federal government corporation is offering tourism services for foreign and Pakistani tourists through its Tourist Information Centres, its Publicity and Promotion department, Hotels, Motels and Tours & Transport Subsidiaries.

PTDC, with its largest chain of Hotels, Motels and Restaurants, a fleet of tourist transport and professional staff, is well equipped to cater for all needs of our guests.

PTDC’s subsidiary, Pakistan Tours Limited is organizing package tours and treks, renting tourist transport, booking of hotels and motels and operating number of international and domestic bus services including Lahore – Delhi, Lahore – Amritsar, Nanakana Sahib – Amritsar, Pakistan – China and Rawalpindi to Naran.

Besides offering tour and transport services to Pakistani and foreign tourists, PTDC is specialized in handling group tours and official delegates.

Diplomats and commercial counsellors from Indonesia, Tajikistan, Iran, Thailand, Syria, Australia, Mauritius, Oman, Myanmar and Nepal, were present in the reception.

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

General

Post navigation

Previous Post: Karachi university Admissions
Next Post: Taxila 13 years on, stolen artefacts still not found

Related Posts

If the war spreads, the region including Pakistan will be unstable General
Conference on Development of Chitral Held General
Saee- Running between Safa and Marwa General
World Travel Watch General
New Gwadar Airport inaugurated, first flight lands General
Prominant Chinese Entrepreneur keen to invest Pakistan General

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

  • About us
  • Advertise on our website
  • Email US
  • Hunza Valley
  • Pakistan Pictures
  • Privacy Policy
  • Writers Required
  • Advertisements
  • Airlines in Pakistan
  • Archeology & History
  • Articles
  • Books about Pakistan
  • General
  • gilgit-baltistan
  • Hajj & Umrah Packages
  • Images of Pakistan
  • International Travel Deals
  • Jobs in Pakistan
  • Life in Pakistan
  • Mountain Expeditions
  • Pakistan Art
  • Pakistan Business News
  • Pakistan Events/Conferences
  • Pakistan General News
  • Pakistan Hotels News
  • Pakistan News
  • Pakistan People
  • Pakistan Travel News
  • Pakistani Leaders Speeches
  • Pakistani News Cartoons
  • Pakistani Videos
  • Places in Pakistan
  • Scholarship Announcements
  • Scholarships
  • Science and Technology
  • Singers and Instuments
  • Sufis of Pakistan
  • WikiLeaks
  • Workingmen
  • Advertisements
  • Airlines in Pakistan
  • Archeology & History
  • Articles
  • Books about Pakistan
  • General
  • gilgit-baltistan
  • Hajj & Umrah Packages
  • Images of Pakistan
  • International Travel Deals
  • Jobs in Pakistan
  • Life in Pakistan
  • Mountain Expeditions
  • Pakistan Art
  • Pakistan Business News
  • Pakistan Events/Conferences
  • Pakistan General News
  • Pakistan Hotels News
  • Pakistan News
  • Pakistan People
  • Pakistan Travel News
  • Pakistani Leaders Speeches
  • Pakistani News Cartoons
  • Pakistani Videos
  • Places in Pakistan
  • Scholarship Announcements
  • Scholarships
  • Science and Technology
  • Singers and Instuments
  • Sufis of Pakistan
  • WikiLeaks
  • Workingmen
  • Pakistan India agree to Ceasefire All flights and airports open
  • Sukkur Airport will get international flights soon
  • Pakistan Travel and tourism sector likely to generate over $4b in revenue by 2025
  • Pakistan is ‘Number 1’ among the most beautiful countries in the world
  • Recent terrorism incidents to have adverse effect on Pakistan tourism

Copyright © 2025 Pakistan Travel & Culture.

Powered by PressBook Grid Blogs theme

%d