Mallika Roy

• Master of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at University of Chittagong

The agri-food supply chain is undergoing a shift towards sustainability through technology, leadership, and circular economy practices. This chapter explores how advanced technologies like IoT, blockchain, AI, and precision agriculture enhance sustainability. It examines leadership's role in fostering circular economy principles and addresses chall...

The agri-food supply chain is vital for food security, economic development, and environmental sustainability. However, traditional linear production and consumption models have caused environmental degradation, resource depletion, and waste. This study explores integrating circular economy principles into the agri-food supply chain to create a mor...

With the increasing global concern over food waste and its environmental impacts, there is a growing need to understand and promote sustainable practices throughout the food production and distribution process. This study explores the pro-environmental behaviours of the supply chain actors and their employees that can help minimise food waste withi...

This study investigates integrating circular economy principles with information logistics to enhance sustainability and supply chain performance. The study aims to explore how optimizing information flows can support pro-environmental practices, reduce waste, and improve resource efficiency. By leveraging digital technologies and advanced analytic...

This chapter explores the concept of a green supply chain with an emphasis on environmental sustainability by incorporating eco-friendly practices to minimise waste in various stages of product development, manufacturing, and distribution to enhance environmental performance in developing countries. However, populated developing countries are facin...

Chapter provides an overview of the Bangladesh and the Indian economy and the contribution of tourism as an engine of growth to both the countries Both the countries pro-poor tourism development policies to meet United Nations SDGs are presented as a case. The challenges they face for implementing pro-poor tourism policies and opportunities in link...

The worldwide emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has not only exposed vulnerabilities in healthcare systems but has also laid bare the stark disparities within societies. Among those disproportionately affected are the marginalized and vulnerable populations, who face unique challenges in the wake of this unprecedented health crisis. In the context...

Sustainable development has been pointed out as an indispensable condition to ensure a happy life for future generations in developing countries of the world. Also, it has been closely related to economic arena of those countries. Despite its significance, the issue cannot be done with solved easily as there are many factors that tend to debar its...

Abstract: Demographic dividend can open up new opportunities. A country need coherent strategy on how to promote private investment, contribution to sustainable development, inclusive growth and job creation. All these factors can reduce poverty. Aging population decreases the economic growth and increases the poverty. I investigate the effect of a...

This paper discusses the related topic of tourism technology value assessment. Technology is now one of the evidential drivers of tourism growth in a rapidly evolving, globalized, and advanced world. The paper looks at a variety of technological products and services used in the tourism industry. Entertainment falls within the umbrella of relaxatio...

Human health is an uncompromising substance. The word “health” refers to a state of complete emotional and physical well-being. Health can be defined as physical, mental, and social wellbeing, and as a resource for living a full life. It refers not only to the absence of disease, but the ability to recover and bounce back from illness and other pro...

Bangladesh is the land of natural beauty and resources, which has different tourist spot, such as beaches, archaeological sites, religious places, hills and islands, forests and others. Tourism industry is contributing to business and social development, the cultural and environmental quality, and employment and economic growth (Onetiua and Predonu...

The growth of tourism depends on the extent to which tourist appreciate offered hospitality by the host country. More generally, it is accepted that tourists are more willing to spend their moments in regions with good hospitality. This paper investigated the relevance of this hypothetical intuition using the case of Bangladesh. This is the fundame...

The role of tourist demand for products and services in society has changed dramatically over time. The impact of tourist perception, destination image and satisfaction has been a trendy research topic in tourism research. It is very important to determine consumer demand for the products and services of the destination image. The purpose of this r...

This paper prospects at the relating issue of value appraisal of tourism products and services. In a rapid changing advanced and globalized world, tourism is now one of the evidential factors of the economic growth. The paper investigates some distinct product/service segments in tourism (i.e. nature-based, cultural and community-based, volunteer a...

Focusing on Bangladesh, we investigate how the culinary destination image influences the intention of tourists to visit the country at the pre-travel phase. In addition to the three culinary destination image factors considered by existing studies, we include a fourth factor which captures the cultural heritage and critical traditional festivals of...

In the modern era, organizations need to compete in satisfying their local and tourist consumers due to dynamic nature of competition. Moreover, satisfying tourist customers is more challenging than local customers as the contemporary tourists want to live unique experience and are not interested in purchasing standardized products/services. The pu...

Tourism is a growing industry in Bangladesh. With the notable progress of Bangladesh’s economy, international tourism has developed rapidly and domestic tourism achieved similar growth. It was reported that international tourism receipt in 2017 was US$344 million, with an annual growth rate of 10.91% from 1995. The value has grown almost ten times...

A country’s touristy appeal depends on its history, natural beauty and archaeology. From the viewpoint of resources, Bangladesh has attractive unadulterated natural beauty, heroic historical background and archaeological resources. In the tourism industry, accommodation plays a vital role. The motivation to travel is usually led by the desire to ex...

Bangladesh’s historical, cultural, and natural possibilities are diverse. The topic of this paper is the marketing strategies prepared with the aim of creating and developing tourism in Bangladesh. The research conducts SWOT analysis and TOWS matrix on tourism development strategies and communication of Bangladesh as a tourist destination. With the...

Bangladesh is a land of natural beauty with hilly mountains, rivers, lakes. The beauties of Bangladesh have attracted both local and foreign people. To make proper utilization of the scenic beauty tourism industry has been established in Government and Private sector. The objective of the study is to find out the involvement of Private sector in to...

The main objective of the study is to see the role of Battery Operated Rickshaw (BOR) in urban income and employment in Chittagong city. Data are collected from 151 battery operated rickshaw drivers from 10 selected study areas in Chittagong City. Maximum rickshaw drivers (40%) having the income range TK. 15000-19999. It is revealed from our analys...

The paper depicts the grievous effect on different parts of economy like Export, Price level, Activity of port, Tourism sector, Human right etc. Trend, nature and the running of the wheel of the economy basically depend on the concerted adjacent of the related sectors of economy. As a result if the situation becomes entangled in a certain stage the...

The main objective of the study is to seethe role of Battery Operated Rickshaw (BOR) in urban income and employment in Chittagong city. Data are collected from 151 battery operated rickshaw drivers from 10 selected study areas in Chittagong City. Maximum rickshaw drivers (40%) having the income range TK. 15000-19999. It is revealed from our analyse...

Demographic change in Bangladesh is opening up new economic opportunities. As in many countries, declining infant and child mortality helped to spark lower fertility, effectively resulting in a temporary baby boom. As this cohort moves into working ages, Bangladesh finds itself with a potentially higher share of workers as compared with dependents....

The amount of rainfall received over an area is an important factor in assessing availability of water to meet various demands for agriculture, industry, irrigation, generation of hydroelectricity and other human activities. Over the study period of recent 30 years, trend values of monsoon average rainfall in Chittagong have increased. This paper h...

The amount of rainfall received over an area is an important factor in assessing availability of water to meet various demands for agriculture, industry, irrigation, generation of hydroelectricity and other human activities. Over the study period of recent 30 years, trend values of monsoon average rainfall in Chittagong have increased. This paper h...

Bangladesh is full of natural beauty. Rivers, coasts and beaches, archaeological sites, religious places, hills, forests, waterfalls, tea gardens surround it. The Sundarban, Historic Mosque in city of Bagerhat, Ruins of the Buddihist Vihara at Paharpur are the three world heritage sites in Bangladesh among 1007. To observe the beauty of nature, hug...

This paper surveys the literature in which zero sum game has been proved in empirical duopoly market in rural area. In this survey of duopoly models, techniques of game theory are adapted to find market equilibrium and understand deciding forces for firms. We look at situations with increasing complexity, to develop a better understanding of the us...

Bangladesh has always been predominantly an agriculture based country. In early days, agricultural production was fully dependent on rainfall. Over the study period of recent 30 years, trend values of monsoon average rainfall in Chittagong, Dhaka and Rajshahi has risen as a consequence of the increase of the increase in rainfall. On the other hand,...