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Bangladesh has huge potential on hospitality sector, says Salman F Rahman

Bangladesh has huge potential on hospitality sector. The economy is growing. And the Asia-Pacific region was now the world’s largest and fastest developing economy spearheading growth in trade, investment, new technologies, innovation and reforms.

The prime minister’s private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman requested entrepreneurs to invest in this sector. He urged entrepreneurs to take business opportunities and flourish. 

Salman F Rahman speaking at the discussion

He was taking at a discussion organized by the Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry when he requested the businessmen. In his speech, he said Bangladesh has a lot of manpower and training in hospitality management can enable them to serve both inside the country and outside. As a panel discussant, Salman F Rahman said - I will urge the Cacci businessmen to take full investment potential of Bangladesh.

The conference has over 300 business delegates including representatives of leading national commerce chambers, business leaders and policymakers from 27 Asia Pacific countries.

FBCCI President Sheikh Fazle Fahim aslo gave speech on the discussion organized by the Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Brian O’Gallagher, deputy chief executive officer of Australia’s Chamber of Commerce Northern Territory, Cacci President Samir Modi  also spoke. They said that they were interested in training Bangladesh’s manpower in hospitality management and already some of his country’s companies were engaged with young people. Giving the inaugural speech, FBCCI President Sheikh Fazle Fahim said Bangladesh’s economy was stable and its macro-economic growth was in an upward trajectory.

The FBCCI has been addressing some critical issues of the transitional economy including technology and knowledge transfer from the third industrial revolution to the fourth, artificial intelligence, regulatory planning, sustainable development goals, industry-academia gap assessment and re-skilling.

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