Sri Lanka Tourism Expo from 17-20 Nov.

• Key industry-policy event to focus on “Future of Sri Lanka Tourism: Resilience and Sustainable”

Sri Lanka Tourism Expo (SLTE) 2022 is an annual industry-policy integrated event in parallel to the UNWTO Tourism Day Celebration “Rethinking Tourism”, organised by the Alumni Association of Tourism Economics and Hospitality Management (Alumni ATEHM) and the Tourism Study Programs, Department of Economics, University of Colombo with the Strategic Partnership of One Galle Face Mall and the industry partnership with the Sri Lanka Association of Inbound Tour Operators (SLAITO). 

The major objective of organising the second Sri Lanka Tourism Expo (SLTE)-2022 is to create an industry interactive platform for the tourism stakeholders to synergise their collective and cumulative effort to rebuild Sri Lankan tourism as a more resilient and sustainable industry.

Sri Lanka Tourism Expo (SLTE) 2022 provides an influential and robust platform for all the tourism industry stakeholders ranging from accommodation, hotels, associations, destination management companies, and service providers to interact and to build long-lasting business networks and connections by effectively engaging with each other throughout the variety of events during this four-day event from 17-20 November.

In line with the theme of “Rethinking Tourism”, “Mini Travel Mart” (MTM) organised by Association of Inbound Tour Operators (SLAITO), the Extended Industry-Policy Dialogue Forums of International Tourism Leaders’ Summit (ITLS) and culinary, cocktail competitions, mystery box culinary challenge and an exhibition of Sri Lankan cultural entertainment will be held as some of the key  events to showcase the great potential of Sri Lanka Tourism. 

The SLTE-2022 is to open new growing and emerging opportunities to the industry practitioners to make their inroads to recovery and to strengthen the resilience building.

The event will ceremoniously commence on 17 November with a live cooking competition starring seasoned chefs eager to flaunt their talents in creating stand-out dishes on the spot. Several other interactive programs like food festival, cocktail competition, cake structure competition, dress the cake competition and mystery box challenge will occur from 17 to 20 November. Under the theme of “Future of Sri Lanka Tourism: Resilience and Sustainable” the discussion forum will take place on 17 November 6.30 p.m. onwards, touching the topics of fostering sustainability and inclusive growth, boost competitiveness and build resilience in the hospitality industry, realign tourism; recovery and transformation, strengthening coordination, partnerships and solidarity for economic recovery and advance innovation and the digitalisation of the tourism eco system. 

The sessions will be highly interactive with a wide cross section of industry experts actively sharing valuable insights across multiple domains. 

Mini Travel Mart (MTM) organised by Sri Lanka Association of Inbound Tour Operators (SLAITO) will feature many travel industry stakeholders showcasing their offerings on 18 Friday 10.00 a.m. onwards. 

All of these are free of charge and open to the public at the One Galle Face Mall, the venue partner.