KPCTA launches virtual website to facilitate tourists

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority (KPCTA) on Tuesday launched an interactive and virtual website for boosting tourism, culture, archaeology and heritage potential and facilitating domestic and international tourists in the province.

Advisor to Chief Minister on Tourism, Culture, Archaeology and Museums Zahid Chanzeb and KPCTA Director General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority Barkatullah Marwat inaugurated interactive and virtual websites.

The website contains pictures and written details of important tourism spots in the province besides facilities for tourists to virtually visit these scenic places. A visitor can click any of the tourist spots after wearing VR and can see it as if he is present on the designated serene place and can roam around a site of his choice.

Inaugurating the website, Zahid Chanzeb stressed the need for virtualization of tourism and inclusion of religious, cultural and heritage sites in the digital framework for the domestic and foreign tourists and visitors.

He also asked the relevant quarters to upload the tourism, religious, cultural and heritage sites in the merged districts in the website, which have now become part and parcel of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The advisor said that the facilities and information regarding hotel booking, police, security, services and routes leading to scenic places should also be posted on the website besides revitalizing the one-window operation to facilitate tourists and visitors.

Zahid Chanzeb expressed the hope that these steps would not only showcase the tourism, cultural and heritage assets to the outer world but would also handsomely enhance revenue of the department and province as well.

To accomplish the vision of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder and former prime minister Imran Khan and the aspiration of KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, the advisor pledged that no stone would be left unturned to promote tourism and culture in the province.

He said that they can make the province prosperous and developed through boosting tourism by providing modern-day facilities to the tourists in the province.

He urged the relevant quarters to expedite work on rehabilitation of tourist spots and opening new scenic attractions in Galiyat, Malakand, Hazara, Chitral and other areas before the advent of summer season.