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This study analyses the comparative advantage and the pattern of trade flows of Bangladeshi leather industry with comparison to other selected Asian countries-Pakistan, China and India.This research adopted well recognized measure of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA)-Balassa's Index. Bangladesh categorizes its overall leather export into two categories, i.e., I. Raw hides & skins, and II. Leather & leather products. An in-depth RCA has been conducted for these two categories followed by an analysis of overall industry. The analysis shows that Bangladesh has a comparatively high RCA in overall leather exportswith other selected countries from 2004 to 2013 which is driven by a very high RCA in raw hides & skins exports. This indicates that Bangladesh has significant potentiality for specialization in leather export especially raw hides & skins. Therefore, entrepreneurs and policy makers should specialize in raw hides and skins productions and exports to generate more export revenues for the country.

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism industry has been facing a period of profound uncertainty. Particularly, tour operators have suffered from the uncertainty the most as they depend directly on others including supply-side (e.g., airlines, hotels) and demandside (e.g., tourists) of tourism and also on destination management authorities. Uncertainties regarding situations and decisions from all these counterparts led the tour operators to a great vulnerability in Bangladesh. Many tour operators adopted resilience strategies that ultimately helped them survive. This study explores resilience and adaptive management strategies adopted by tour operators in Bangladesh. The study draws on qualitative semi-structured interviews with tour operators. The empirical evidence identifies three broader types of resilience strategies that helped tour operators in Bangladesh to survive during the COVID-19 uncertainty: innate resilience, internally-induced resilience, and externally-induced resilience.Apart from contributing to the COVID-19 tourism resilience literature, the study would enable tour operators, government agencies and other relevant stakeholders to work together in order to better address the uncertainty during COVID-19 pandemic and also when implementing initiatives to revive the sector in the changed reality after the pandemic.