{"id":56796,"date":"2019-10-25T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56796"},"modified":"2020-07-06T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:22:27","slug":"pakistan-tourism-sector-gets-usd-100-million-investment-us-businessmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-tourism-sector-gets-usd-100-million-investment-us-businessmen.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Tourism Sector gets USD 100 million investment from US businessmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: A visiting delegation of US businessmen announced an investment worth USD 100 million for the tourism sector of Pakistan, a news source reported. The US investors called upon Minister of Kashmir Affairs &amp; Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Ali Amin Khan Gandapur for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/bukhari-invites-private-sector-promote-pakistani-tourism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bukhari invites private sector to promote Pakistani tourism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The minister welcomed the investment interest from the businessmen, and assured that the government will fully facilitate them in any way possible. He added that the state was ensuring measures for promoting and developing the country\u2019s tourism on an emergency basis.<\/p>\n<p>Gandapur revealed that the authorities concerned were planning to set up tourism centres in Skardu, G-B, and several other areas across the country. He added that the federal government will also construct an international standard airport in Skardu to assist tourists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/world-tourism-forum-2020-organised-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Tourism Forum 2020 to be organised in Pakistan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to tourism in Pakistan statistics 2018, the number of tourists increased to over 1.9 million in five years. This number was only 565,212 in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the government had also allowed a tax holiday for foreign investments in the tourism sector, in order to attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Zubair Gilani said that they plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/tourism-sector-attract-foreign-investment-boi-chairman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invite foreign investment<\/a> for the establishment of tourism zones in Galiat, Hazara region, Swat, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-qatar-sign-mous-for-promoting-trade-tourism-and-financial-intelligence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pakistan, Qatar sign MoUs for promoting trade, tourism and financial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gilani added that they expected a significant amount of investment, since they had heavily prioritised the enhancement of the tourism sector in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: A visiting delegation of US businessmen announced an investment worth USD 100 million for the tourism sector of Pakistan, a news source reported. The US investors called upon Minister of Kashmir Affairs &amp; Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Ali Amin Khan Gandapur for this purpose. Read:\u00a0Bukhari invites private sector to promote Pakistani tourism The minister welcomed the investment interest from the businessmen, and assured that the government will fully facilitate them in any way possible. He added that the state was ensuring measures for promoting and developing the country\u2019s tourism on an emergency basis. Gandapur revealed that the authorities concerned were planning to set up tourism centres in Skardu, G-B, and several other areas across the country. He added that the federal government will also construct an international standard airport in Skardu to assist tourists. Read:\u00a0World Tourism Forum 2020 to be organised in Pakistan According to tourism in Pakistan statistics 2018, the number of tourists increased to over 1.9 million in five years. This number was only 565,212 in 2013. In September, the government had also allowed a tax holiday for foreign investments in the tourism sector, in order to attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Zubair&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":45857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15167],"tags":[13606],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-details-on-pakistan-tourism-sector-gets-usd-100-million-investment-from-us-businessmen","9":"cat-15167-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan Tourism Sector gets USD 100 million investment from US businessmen - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: A visiting delegation of US businessmen announced an investment worth USD 100 million for the tourism sector of Pakistan, a news source\" \/>\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\/pakistan-tourism-sector-gets-usd-100-million-investment-us-businessmen.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan Tourism Sector gets USD 100 million investment from US businessmen - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: A visiting delegation of US businessmen announced an investment worth USD 100 million for the tourism sector of Pakistan, a news source\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-tourism-sector-gets-usd-100-million-investment-us-businessmen.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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