He directed to find out a way out for out sourcing all the government-owned rest houses and run them on commercial lines that would increase the earnings from these rest houses and would also provide efficient services to the tourists.
He was presiding over a meeting of the Board of Directors of GDA at Nathiagali that reviewed different steps for promoting tourism and made a number of decisions.
Provincial Minister and MPA Mushtaq Ghani, Akbar Ayub, Sardar Muhammad Idrees, Faisal Zaman, Mahmood Jan and Dr Azhar Jadoon, Secretary Local Govt, Commissioner Hazara Division and Principal Secretary to CM and members of board attended the meeting.
The DG told that under the Chief Minister's directives, the tourism handed over 16 rest houses to GDA that earned 2.5 million rupees within the holy month of Ramazan and more than one thousand tourists stayed there and they were extended all facilities. However the Chief Minister directed to outsource these rest houses through an open auction because the government did not have the capacity and the dynamism to run commercial activities.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2017