Problems and Prospects of Tourism Industry at Sylhet Region in Bangladesh

Tourism is not only a concept of enjoyment or travelling or passing the holidays, but also a development concept and it has now been placed a wider significance among the mass people, government and development planner in Bangladesh. Sylhet has a bright prospect to develop its tourism sectors as its treasures weather it is going to miserable situation in the absence of proper plan and realistic steps. The aim of the research is to investigate the problems and prospects to flourish the tourism sector in this region. Quantitative method has been used in this study to investigate the research problems based on survey method. The tourists are found very enthusiastic to get test of visiting different places and this study results some good indications for improving tourism sectors. However, in order to make Bangladesh a tourism friendly nation, a renovation of tourism policy, which should be in tune with the new national economic, social, environmental policies and trends and the government should monitor all actors and factors related to tourism sector in Bangladesh.