Sri Lankans must look at opportunities in the neighbourhood as it could be highly beneficial to businesses, Aitken Spence Group Chairman Harry Jayawardane said.
Speaking at the celebrations held on Tuesday at Aitken Spence House in view of Aitken Spence entering a partnership with World-Leading DPD Group he said the biggest advantage in this is the huge population the neighbouring countries have.
Sri Lanka companies before trying to do business with Europe and far away countries should try to exploit this huge population benefit especially from countries like India, to do business as it has second largest population in the world.”
He said that Sri Lanka with peace today is one of the safest countries to do business. The country also developed very fast after the end of the war.Atiken Spence recently bought a brand-new five-star hotel with 143 rooms in Chennai for US$ 25 million. Speaking to Daily News he said it was not difficult to get into India. May be there were more approvals than in Sri Lanka but we have cleared them and remains as the second five star hotel in Chennai.”
Aitken Spence already manages two hotel properties in India,Hotel Atithi in Coimbatore and Hotel Tamara in Puducherry.
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