Some of the select senior management of corporate, tour operators and travel agents from Sri Lanka and Bahrain at the Tourism Promotion and Road Show along with Ambassador Dr. Mendis, Director of SLTPB, Madubhani Perera and Country Manager of SriLankan Airlines in Bahrain, Samantha Nagahawatta, among others at the event.
The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) of Ministry of Tourism, in close coordination with the Embassy of Sri Lanka in the Kingdom of Bahrain, conducted a mega tourism promotional Road-Show in order to entice, encourage and woo tourists and visitors from Bahrain to Sri Lanka recently.
The mega Road-Show and Promotional event consisted of Business to Business (B2B) sessions, comprehensive and informative presentations and workshops, pro-active interaction between Sri Lankan and Bahrain basedselect corporates and tour/travel agents, Q & A session and raffle draws followed by dinner at the foremostGulf Hotel in Bahrain.
Nearly 20 corporate, travel agents, tour operators and hoteliers from Sri Lanka travelled to Bahrain to participate at this Promotional event along with officials of Sri Lanka Tourism. Well over 120 travel agents, tour operators and companies from Bahrain attended the event and interacted with the Sri Lankan travel and hospitality contingent, thus making the Tourism Promotional event highly successful, productive and result oriented.
Some of the leading companies from Sri Lanka, which participated included, Hilton Hotel Colombo, Diethelm Travel Group, Serendib Leisure Ltd, Hamoos Travels Ltd, George Steuart Travel, Jetwing Travels and Sunway Holidays, among others.
This expansive Promotional event and Road Show commenced around 4.30 in the evening, thus enabling both Sri Lankan and Bahrain companies and travel/tour companies to engage in B2B activities on a pro-active and comprehensive basis till about 7.30 in the evening.
Today, there are daily Srilankan Airlines direct flights and Gulf Air operates five direct flights a week, thus establishing easy connectivity to Bahrain and Middle Eastern tourists and travelers. AirArabia, which too was a sponsor of the Tourism Promotional event, made a presentation of touristic attributes and characteristics of Sri Lanka as well as the connectivity of AirArabia.
Ambassador Dr. Mendis, highlighted that a number of travel and tourism magazines of repute such as “Lonely Planet”, “BBC Good Foods”, “I-Escape Website of UK”, “Asian Mirror”, “British Airways”and “National Geographic” among others, have listed Sri Lanka as amongst the most sought after touristic destinations in the world on par with other highly visited destinations such as France, Spain, Hawaii and Thailand.
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