{"id":138826,"date":"2023-12-08T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138826"},"modified":"2023-12-08T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:30:23","slug":"visit-sri-lanka-tourism-promotion-networking-event-in-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/08\/visit-sri-lanka-tourism-promotion-networking-event-in-canberra\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVisit Sri Lanka!\u201d \u00a0Tourism Promotion networking event in Canberra\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Press Statement <\/strong>Sri Lanka High Commission Canberra<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The High Commission of Sri Lanka in Canberra in collaboration with the&nbsp;Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau hosted a vibrant evening reception to a selected number of outbound tour operators in Canberra on 06<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;December 2023 at the Sri Lanka High Commission premises.&nbsp;The key objective of this event was to promote Sri Lanka as a tourist destination and present Sri Lanka as an attractive and secure tourism market for Australian visitors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcoming the guests, Sri Lanka High Commissioner Chitranganee Wagiswara said&nbsp;that the tourism is a growing industry in Sri Lanka due to&nbsp;its varied attractions, unique adventures that could be experienced including the Sri Lankan cuisine favoured by Australians.&nbsp;&nbsp;She invited the attendees to look at new destinations and promote Sri Lanka during&nbsp;the upcoming holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme was conducted along with comprehensive brief video presentations depicting the beauty of Sri Lanka through eye-catching videos including Pekoe Trail\u201d which, at the British Guild of Travel Writers International Tourism Awards presentation won the best award for the year 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was followed by a Q &amp; A session and the tour operators showed a keen interest in promoting Sri Lanka among Australian travellers considering the growing popularity Sri Lanka has gained as a new destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concluding the event, a Sri Lankan style dinner was served&nbsp;for the attendees. Giveaway packs containing tourism brochures and souvenirs provided by the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau were distributed to the invitees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka High Commission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canberra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Statement Sri Lanka High Commission Canberra The High Commission of Sri Lanka in Canberra in collaboration with the&nbsp;Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau hosted a vibrant evening reception to a selected number of outbound tour operators in Canberra on 06th&nbsp;December 2023 at the Sri Lanka High Commission premises.&nbsp;The key objective of this event was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}