The government is going to sign a contract with Malaysia to boost bilateral cooperation in tourism and hospitality sectors.
The deal will be signed in the first week of next month during the upcoming visit by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Malaysia.
After the cabinet meeting, Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan yesterday informed the reporters that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will sign an agreement on tourism during her planned visit to Malaysia in the first week of next month.
Presided over by the PM, the cabinet meeting also approved a Memorandum of Understanding on co-operation in the field of tourism between the two governments of Bangladesh and Malaysia. Civil aviation and tourism ministry placed the draft MoU before the cabinet meeting held at the secretariat in the capital.
The MoU will initially be signed for five years, which can be extended for another five years only if both side agree while the contract could also be scraped with a six-month prior-notice, said the Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan.