{"id":35692,"date":"2018-03-11T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=35692"},"modified":"2018-03-13T09:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T04:53:38","slug":"a-national-body-for-tourism-sector-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/a-national-body-for-tourism-sector-in-the-making.html","title":{"rendered":"A national body for tourism sector in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Managing Director Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC), Abdul Ghafoor Khan said that steps are being taken to rapidly transform PTDC into a National Tourism Authority (NTA), according to a news report. He also added that members of a delegation from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, who had recently visited Pakistan also recommended the establishment of a National Tourism Authority as a replacement for PTDC.<\/p>\n<p>They further added that this would serve as a platform for promoting Pakistan as a tourist destination in the international tourism market. During this meeting, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was briefed about the objectives to be achieved with the formation of NTA. It was highlighted that PTDC owns a lot of real estate, which would subsequently be transformed in the investment branch of tourism in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>It was also announced that the PTDC Chief would be the head representative of Pakistan\u2019s delegation at the 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0NJoint Commission Meeting for East Asia Pacific and South Asia scheduled to be held in Pakistan in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Managing Director Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC), Abdul Ghafoor Khan said that steps are being taken to rapidly transform PTDC into a National Tourism Authority (NTA), according to a news report. He also added that members of a delegation from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, who had recently visited Pakistan also recommended the establishment of a National Tourism Authority as a replacement for PTDC. They further added that this would serve as a platform for promoting Pakistan as a tourist destination in the international tourism market. During this meeting, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was briefed about the objectives to be achieved with the formation of NTA. It was highlighted that PTDC owns a lot of real estate, which would subsequently be transformed in the investment branch of tourism in Pakistan. It was also announced that the PTDC Chief would be the head representative of Pakistan\u2019s delegation at the 31st\u00a0NJoint Commission Meeting for East Asia Pacific and South Asia scheduled to be held in Pakistan in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":7875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5638,5639,5296],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-35692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-national-tourism-authority","tag-nta","tag-ptdc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A national body for tourism sector in the making - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Managing Director Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC), Abdul Ghafoor Khan said that steps are being taken to rapidly transform PTDC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/a-national-body-for-tourism-sector-in-the-making.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A national body for tourism sector in the making - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Managing Director Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC), Abdul Ghafoor Khan said that steps are being taken to rapidly transform PTDC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/a-national-body-for-tourism-sector-in-the-making.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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