{"id":95652,"date":"2019-11-25T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T00:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95652"},"modified":"2019-11-25T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T00:22:28","slug":"mega-consumer-tourism-promotion-at-sri-lanka-food-and-cultural-festival-2019-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/25\/mega-consumer-tourism-promotion-at-sri-lanka-food-and-cultural-festival-2019-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Consumer Tourism Promotion at Sri Lanka Food and Cultural Festival &#8211; 2019 in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Press Release Consulate General of Sri Lanka Sydney<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lanka Food and Cultural Festival \u2013 2019, a Sri\nLankan Tourism\nConsumer Promotional Event which was jointly organised by the Sri Lanka Tourism\nPromotion Bureau (SLTPB), and Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Sydney, was\nheld at Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour\nfrom 23<sup>rd<\/sup> to 24<sup>th<\/sup> November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dignitaries at the\nofficial opening include, Hon Scott Farlow, Leader of the House of the\nLegislative Council of New South Wales (representing Acting Minister for\nMulticulturalism in NSW), Hon Kevin Connolly, MP\/Riverstone, Hon Karen\nPensabene, Strathfield Council, H. E. &nbsp;J.C Weliamuna, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka\nin Australia, Mr. Nimal Bandara, Consul General\/Sydney, Mr. Abdul Raheem,\nConsul Commercial, Ms. Charmarie Maelge, MD\/SLTPB and Mr. Peter Mckeon, General\nManager, Sri Lankan Airlines\/Australia were also participated for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main objective of this\nconsumer promotion was to create awareness among Australian travel community\nthat Sri Lanka is most preferred destination for leisure and holidays.\nSubsequent to successful similar event of this nature held in 2017, SLTPB\ndecided to organise a consumer event to attract more Australian travellers to\nSri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was a great\nsuccess with the presence of Sri Lankan travel and trade companies as well as many\nAustralian visitors who enjoyed Sri Lankan festival environment at this event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Major activities took place\nat this two days festival included exhibition and sale of Sri Lankan products,\ntasting of Sri Lankan food and the Ceylon Tea, cultural performances, question\nand answer sessions with give away, video presentation on Sri Lanka, distribution\nof promotional materials, selling of tour packages by the Sri Lankan travel\ncompanies etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Consulate General of Sri\nLanka<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Sydney<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>25<sup>th<\/sup> November\n2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release Consulate General of Sri Lanka Sydney The Sri Lanka Food and Cultural Festival \u2013 2019, a Sri Lankan Tourism Consumer Promotional Event which was jointly organised by the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB), and Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Sydney, was held at Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour from 23rd to 24th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95652","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=95652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}