{"id":54077,"date":"2019-08-01T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54077"},"modified":"2019-08-01T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:23:22","slug":"punjab-govt-form-new-tourism-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-form-new-tourism-authority.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt to form new tourism authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has decided to form a new autonomous authority in order to promote and develop the tourism sector, a news source reported. For this purpose, it has directed the Tourism Department to prepare a draft bill, titled \u2018Punjab Tourism Development\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/first-koh-e-suleman-tourism-fest-planned-for-august.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Koh-e-Suleman tourism fest planned for August<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The provincial government plans to merge the Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) with the new proposed authority. Pertaining to this matter, Tourism Secretary Nadeem Mehboob stated that they will not lay off any TDCP employee or officer. He added that the post of Managing Director (MD) will be converted into Director General (DG).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cm-buzdar-stresses-utilisation-historical-buildings-tourism-purposes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CM Buzdar stresses utilisation of historical buildings for tourism purposes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cm-buzdar-declares-bahawalpur-tourist-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar<\/a> has highlighted the importance of utilising historical buildings for tourism purposes. He added that the provincial government would develop new tourist spots as per its recently announced comprehensive tourism policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has decided to form a new autonomous authority in order to promote and develop the tourism sector, a news source reported. For this purpose, it has directed the Tourism Department to prepare a draft bill, titled \u2018Punjab Tourism Development\u2019. Read:\u00a0First Koh-e-Suleman tourism fest planned for August The provincial government plans to merge the Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) with the new proposed authority. Pertaining to this matter, Tourism Secretary Nadeem Mehboob stated that they will not lay off any TDCP employee or officer. He added that the post of Managing Director (MD) will be converted into Director General (DG). Read:\u00a0CM Buzdar stresses utilisation of historical buildings for tourism purposes Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar has highlighted the importance of utilising historical buildings for tourism purposes. He added that the provincial government would develop new tourist spots as per its recently announced comprehensive tourism policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":34574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12450],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-punjab-govt-to-form-new-tourism-authority"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab govt to form new tourism authority - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has decided to form a new autonomous authority in order to promote and develop the tourism sector, a news source reported.\" \/>\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\/punjab-govt-form-new-tourism-authority.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab govt to form new tourism authority - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has decided to form a new autonomous authority in order to promote and develop the tourism sector, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-form-new-tourism-authority.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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