Dhaka, Feb. 19 -- Initiatives will be underway to incorporate tourism education in the country's secondary level curriculum in an effort to create skilled manpower in the aviation and tourism sector, said Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Muhammad Faruk Khan during a meeting with the Executive Committee members of Tour Operators Association of Bangladesh (TOAB) held at the Secretariat in the capital on February 18.

"We have already included tourism in university-level education to create skillful manpower in the tourism sector. Now, it is time to include this subject in the secondary-level curriculum and we will discuss the matter with the Ministry of Education," said the Minister while addressing the meeting.

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