Prospects Of E-Tourism Ecosystem In Bangladesh: Services And Infrastructure

Abstract

e-Tourism is nothing but the use of technology in tourism activities means digitalisation of all the processes in Tourism. It’s both an e-Business and e-Commerce approach. The aim is to launch a sustainable e-Tourism infrastructure apposite for the ecosystem of Bangladesh with possible online based services and based on comparison among domestic and foreign ecosystem and statistical analysis on Number of tourists, Earnings, Purpose of visit and Number of Internet users perspective. Here, Proposed Services like packages and prices, tour guideline and plan, tour map, tour essentials list, online booking facility, confirmation feedback, List of tourist places, location with pictures, local agent point address etc and comparative studies come from different e-Tourism website observation, influencing factors and survey on the tourists demand. Data for analysis are collected from Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and Internet. Infrastructure is established based on the environment of Bangladesh, payment method, user friendly system, statistical analysis on number of tourists and earnings perspective and comparative study on the properties of the existing domestic and foreign e-Tourism ecosystem. This survey represents the e-tourism infrastructure in Bangladesh which is efficient for our environment. It clarifies a statistical analysis on the growth and development of tourism sector after switching from manual system to automated system with annual revenue, most visiting places, number of visitors and foreign exchange earnings perspective. It focuses a well organized and balanced infrastructure for the tourism environment of Bangladesh and for the planner to develop tourism industry and to earn more annual revenue. It is handy for tourism agency. It is also helpful to find out its impact on GDP and annual revenue of the government. This survey establishes a map for future improvement, the process of attracting foreign visitors and to highlight the tourism industry of Bangladesh around the world