Tourism

Bangladesh recorded a total of 135,000 tourists in 2021, ranking 153rd in the world in absolute terms. The fact that larger countries regularly perform better in a comparison of the absolute number of guests is obvious. By putting the tourist numbers in relation to the population of Bangladesh, the result is much more comparable picture: With 0.00079 tourists per resident, Bangladesh ranked 211st in the world. In South Asia, it ranked 8th. In 2021, Bangladesh generated around 273.00 million US dollars in the tourism sector alone. This corresponds to 0.059 percent of its the gross domestic product and approximately 2 percent of all international tourism receipts in South Asia.