Sri Lanka Convention Bureau celebrates Global Meetings Industry Day

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Global Meetings Industry Day was celebrated on 6 April all over the world. The Sri Lanka Convention Bureau (SLCB) also joined the celebrations by organising an educational program for the local industry in line with this year’s theme ‘Meetings mean business’ in collaboration with SLAPCEO.

The Keynote Speaker at the event was Noor Ahmad Hamid, Regional Director of International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) – Asia Pacific. Charitha Bandara, Deputy National President of Junior Chamber International Sri Lanka, also spoke on ‘Events – Undiscovered Service Experience in Sri Lanka’.

Sri Lanka has been doing well in promoting association meetings to Sri Lanka in the past and the PATA Annual Summit 2017 will be hosted in Sri Lanka next month which will be attended by nearly 200 overseas travel and tourism professionals from the Asia Pacific region.

SLCB is also working on hosting more travel agents association meetings in Sri Lanka in future i.e. Annual Convention of German Travel Agents Association and also Annual Convention of Spanish Travel Agents Association to name a few.

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