Our Story
Who we are:
The Bengal Tours Ltd a group of tourism professionals has occupied the leading position among the inbound tour operators in Bangladesh. Having total workforce of 65 personnel, 2 work stations at Dhaka & Khulna, fleet of motor vehicles and cruise ships. We have 12 full time media coordinators and among them 4 are specially for Japanese media. Also we have 10 English speaking fulltime guides those who are taking care of European markets. Besides we outsource different language interpreter for different market.
What we do:
Providing international standard travel related services to the incoming foreign & local tourists and local corporate house as well. Our main services are arranging package tours every parts of the country, city sightseeing, river cruising, air ticketing, product launching, transport rental, research coordination and logistic support to making TV documentary for overseas media etc.
• Package tour to Bangladesh
• Home-stay tours
• Study Tours
• Tour to Sundarbans mangrove forest
• Research work / location hunting
• Documentary film making
• Event management & logistics
• Hotel reservation
• Support staff providing & airport protocol service
• Rent – a – car
• Cruisers rental service
• Interpreting (English, Japanese & Chinese)
• Domestic & International air tickets
Where we attach:
We closely attached with the local, national & multinational organizations around the world. Mostly we work as a ground handling agent for the tour company from Asia, Europe & USA.
Our commitment:
• To satisfy our clients with our personalized services
• To protect our environment and to promote our culture & heritage
• To promote Bangladesh to the international arena of tourism with a positive approach.
Our achievement:
• THROUGH MEDIA: We provided research & coordination for more than 100 documentaries and including 3 world heritage sites, global warming issue & sea level rise, micro credit and many more interesting subjects in Bangladesh. Specially for Japanese TV broadcasting companies like NHK TV, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo, TBS, FUJI TV, Nippon TV, Japanese Print Media like Asahi Daily, Yomiuri Daily, Mainichi Daily, Nikkei Daily, Japanese production houses like Group Gendai, Visual Folklore, TV Man Union, Documentary Japan, Omnibus, Nikkei Visual and many more. In Europe we worked for BBC, National Geographic, ABC TV etc.
• We have served around 35000 tourists during the last 14 years, 70% of them are foreigners.
• We promoted traditional weavers, potters, honey collectors, rickshaw painters, otter fishermen etc.
• We are the only company that attended a single country fair at Tokyo, Japan in September’ 2007. Besides, we have been regularly attending international tourism fair since year 2000.
• We sponsored 2 different painting exhibitions on Rickshaw (year 2002) and Sundarbans mangrove forest (year 2003).
• The Bengal Tours Ltd., for the first time in Bangladesh (year 2008) had made a promotional video documentary titled “Bangladesh: the land of smiles” in 3 different languages (English, Japanese & Chinese) to promote the tourism industry of our country.
• We got the Bangladesh Hotel & Guesthouse Owners Association achievement award – 2005 as the best tourism company of the year.
The Sundarbans Forest (world’s largest mangrove forest) being a unique spot for retreat not only in Bangladesh, but also in the world. It can be reached by waterways only. To conduct a comfortable, safe and enjoyable trip to the Sundarbans forest, we have our own Cruising Vessel, “M. V. BHELA & M. V. DINGHY”, equipped with necessary facilities. Each has 26 & 46-sleeping accommodation respectively.
Thanks & regards
M. Rafiqul Islam (Nasim)
Director Operations
Skype: bengalnasim
