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SL Embassy in Vietnam hosts tourism promotion seminar

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Embassy of Sri Lanka in Hanoi in close coordination with the Sri Lankan Tourism hosted a tourism promotion seminar to promote tourism from Vietnam to Sri Lanka.

The seminar was attended by over 50 travel agents, media personnel, tourism promotional institutions and senior officials of International Cooperation Department of National Administration of Tourism, amongst others.

The formal event, which was held at the Chancery of the Embassy, commenced with the lighting of the traditional oil lamp by Ambassador – Designate, Prof. A. Saj U. Mendis, along with Ms Tran Thi Phuong Nhung, Director of International Cooperation Department of Vietnam, Vice President & General Secretary of Vietnam Travel Agents known as VISTA, Giang Bien and President of the Media Club of Hanoi, Nguyen Duc Xuyen as well as senior officials of the Embassy.

The seminar was coordinated by the Minister Counsellor (Commercial) Kishani Wickramasinghe, with Sri Lanka Tourism (SLT) and the SLT Promotional Bureau (SLTPB) Chairman Chalaka Gajabahu, Sri Lanka Association of Inbound Tour Operators (SLAITO) President Nishad Wijetunga and Tourist Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) President Shanthikumar, as well as International Cooperation Department of Vietnam Director, and Vietnam Society of Travel Agents General Secretary addressed the seminar.

The recorded addresses from SLTPB Chairman, SLAITO President and THASL President conveyed highly persuasive and compelling messages to the Vietnamese travel agents and tourism promotional institutions, as well as the media personnel. Since the COVID pandemic has disrupted tourism industry on a global basis, Prof. Mendis and SLTPB Chairman as well as others stated that Sri Lanka is now fully open to welcome tourists and travellers, particularly from Vietnam since the tourism from Vietnam to Sri Lanka is basically minimal.

In 2022, approximately 10 million Vietnamese travelled out of the country, mostly to ASEAN countries, Japan, China, and South Korea. Prof. Mendis and Wickramasinghe, stated that if Sri Lanka could capture not 1% of Vietnamese travellers but only 0.5% of the travellers to Sri Lanka, it would translate to 50,000.

Friday, April 21, 2023 – 01:00











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