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Sri Lanka Tourism in major promotion drive in China

Sri Lanka was showcased in all its splendour at the Shanghai World Travel Fair held at Shanghai Exhibition Centre in China last week.

At the Sri Lanka Tourism Product Promotion Forum in Chengdu

This was the main highlight of a series of promotional events and meetings that were conducted across major cities in China during the course of the past week.

Minister of Tourism Development John Amaratunga led the successful promotional drive that covered the key cities of Shanghai, Nanjing & Chengdu in China.

Minister Amaratunga held many important meetings with tourism stakeholders in each city. One such meeting was with Chairperson, Shanghai Tourism Administration, Xu Weiwan where important discussions took place with a view to increase outbound traffic to Sri Lanka and improving connectivity from Shanghai to Colombo. Minister Amaratunga invited Chairman Weiwan to visit Sri Lanka along with a delegation of tourism officials and industry experts on a fact finding tour.

Minister Amaratunga also visited the largest Online Travel Agency (OTA) in China, C-trip and had a fruitful discussion with the CEO and top management of the company. The Minister was assured that every effort will be made to encourageindividual travellers to visit Sri Lanka through the C-trip platform.

Source : http://epaper.dailymirror.lk/epaper/viewer.aspx

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