Tourism: Envoy woos Germans to visit Pakistan

Ambassador Syed Hasan said that Pakistan was one of the best countries that were endowed with beautiful landscape.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Embassy in Berlin organised a seminar on “Tourism and Cultural Heritage of Pakistan” in collaboration with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) on the sidelines of the Trade Exhibition on Tourism Industry, International Tourism Berlin (ITB-2015) in Berlin on Friday. Speaking to the participants, Ambassador Syed Hasan Javed said that Pakistan was one of the best countries that were endowed with beautiful landscape, topography, and natural resources, according to a message received here from Berlin. It is a birthplace of many civilizations and a centre of many religions that flourished in this region thousands of years back, he said and added that hardly only 2% of Pakistan’s tourism potential has been explored and there is a need to promote this important sector of the economy as it has a potential of high growth that could stimulate Pakistan’s economic revival.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 7^th, 2015.