Meeting on tourism decides to start series of cultural activities across province.

PESHAWAR -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Monday chaired a high-level meeting on tourism sector and sought feasibility reports on all tourist sports besides deciding to kick off series of cultural activities throughout the province.

The chief minister said that spring festivals should mark inauguration of those cultural events to provide opportunity to people for recreation and highlight potential of the tourism sector, which could contribute optimally towards national exchequer, he added.

He said the government was deploying more resources for uplift of tourism sector and added that all schemes of the sector should start by March besides operationalisation of tourism authority in three months.

Similarly, he said that under 21 games, national youth carnival and talent hunt programme should be immediately started, adding that tourism resorts should be identified for summer season in southern districts of the province which would not promote domestic tourism, but will also attracts foreign tourists.

The chief minister directed for expediting work on Arbab Niyaz Stadium so that it may be made ready for holding Pakistan Super League Cricket tournament next year.

He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan also served as tourism ambassador of the country for whole world and carved a niche for the country's tourism sector on...

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