This year “World Tourism Day” will be celebrated in a special way, it was decided in a meeting chaired by Adviser to Chief Minister Asif Mehmood.
The meeting reviewed various programs for WTD and approved master plan. However, Tourism Corporation, Parks and Horticulture Authority Lahore and Archaeology departments will further work on it to make the events attractive.
Director-General TDCP Tanveer Jabbar, Director General PHA Lahore Jawad Ahmed Qureshi and DG Archaeology briefed the Adviser about their respective plans.
It was decided that “Guided Tours” will be arranged in historical Bagh-e-Jinnah at the Mall. “There are many centuries old trees in the Jinnah Bagh besides one of earliest cricket grounds in the subcontinent Indo-Pak developed while one of the largest reading facility in Pakistan ‘Quaid e Azam Library’ erected there” observed the Adviser.
In this context, he said, there was huge potential found in Jinnah Bagh to attract local as well as foreign tourists.
It was decided in the meeting that Special Guides belong to TDCP and PHA Lahore will be deputed to apprise the visitors about historical aspects of the garden, once called the Lawrence Garden. “Shalamar Garden, a masterpiece of Mughal era will be another destination for the tourists during the ceremonies held on the eve of WTD” said the Adviser.
