{"id":30389,"date":"2023-11-08T14:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=30389"},"modified":"2023-11-08T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:23:41","slug":"us-tech-entrepreneurs-urged-to-invest-in-upgrading-pakistans-tourism-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/30389","title":{"rendered":"US tech entrepreneurs urged to invest in upgrading Pakistan\u2019s tourism industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON: Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S., Masood Khan, has urged Pakistani-American Tech entrepreneurs to invest in promoting Pakistan\u2019s tourism and digitalization of its industry, according to APP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the digitalization of necessary information, including bookings, lodging, transportation, and availability of accurate information, the tourism sector of Pakistan will witness a transformative change,\u201d he said at a special session of the Annual Open Silicon Valley Forum 2023 in San Francisco, a city in the US state of California.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of the conference was \u201cExploring Pakistan\u2019s Tourism Treasures: From Mountains to Metropolises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur joint ventures will help tap the existing potential of tourism. Your equity participation will pay you off well,\u201d Ambassador Masood Khan said.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked the organizers of the session which he said would \u201cinduce people to visit Pakistan and get a first-hand experience of witnessing its pristine beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has the tallest mountains, scorching deserts and a captivating coastline, he said, adding, \u201cPakistanis are loving, caring and welcoming people \u2014 known for their hospitality and taking care of guests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A land of ancient civilizations, the ambassador said, Pakistan had everything to offer to every kind of tourist.<\/p>\n<p>Masood Khan said that the country had a strong domestic tourism industry and tens of millions of tourists visits various locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to upgrade our infrastructure so that we could absorb more international tourists in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S., Masood Khan, has urged Pakistani-American Tech entrepreneurs to invest in promoting Pakistan\u2019s tourism and digitalization of its industry, according to APP. \u201cWith the digitalization of necessary information, including bookings, lodging, transportation, and availability of accurate information, the tourism sector of Pakistan will witness a transformative change,\u201d he said at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,32,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30392,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions\/30392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}