Organized by the International Centre for Research Development in collaboration with the Umeå Universitet and the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (CCPSL) the International Conference on Global Public Health will be held at Goldi Sands Hotel in Negombo Sri Lanka on 3rd and 4th July 2014.
Considered to be the largest hospitality trade exhibition held in South Asia, the Hotel Show 2014 will be held on 13th, 14th & 15th June 2014 at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Center in Colombo. Bringing together thousands of Hospitality trade related brands under one roof the exhibition will feature parallel events including Street Food carnival, Ice Carving Competitions, Cocktail competitions and Culinary Competitions involving the leading names in the industry.
Hotel Show 2014 is recognized as the largest hospitality trade exhibition held in South Asia which has driven its way over the past 16 years to support exhibitors to meet their business expectations and upgrade the standards of the hospitality industry in the region. This exhibition is expected to be the ideal showcase for hotel supplies and services in South Asia that brings together thousands of brands from all around the world to suite the new generation.
Hotel Show will feature several events concurrently such as a Street Food carnival, Ice Carving Competitions, Cocktail competitions, Culinary Competitions to create more hype in the hospitality industry. This array of events will attract large numbers of industry professional not only to visit the exhibition but also to be involved directly with Hotel Show 2014 with the objective of making Hotel Show the most successful exhibition in the region..
Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau bagged the “Best Booth Design Award” at Korea’s largest international travel fair, Korea World Travel Fair (KOTFA) held last week in Seoul from 29th May to June 01st, 2014. Sri Lanka Tourism stall stood elegant at the exhibition, with grand décor of culture, beaches, wild life, festivals, water sports, Buddhist attractions of Sri Lanka. Among the crowd of visitors that attracted the stall were the representatives from national tourist organizations, tour operators, tour & travel agents, and online travel agencies. More than 60 countries participated for KOTFA this year representing Asia, Europe, Oceania, America, Africa and Middle East. Destinations such as Russia, Malaysia, China, Egypt, Thailand, Maldives, Sweden, Kuwait, South Africa, India were among the international participants at the KOTFA 2014.
For the second consecutive year, Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau together with representatives from the travel and hotel industry in Sri Lanka participated at the KOTFA Travel fair 2014. Sri Lanka Mission in Seoul facilitated the participation of Sri Lanka Tourism at the event.
KOTFA is considered the largest travel trade show in Korea, connecting the global travel fraternity for more than two decades. KOTFA is also the only travel show in KOREA with a balanced mix of travel trade, corporate and general visitors. It is the best platform for marketing to the KOREA travel trade, MICE segment and tourists. Every year, KOTFA draws participants from National Tourist Organizations, State Government Tourism Departments, Tour Operators, Travel Agents, Hotel & Resorts, Airlines, Online Travel Agencies and many other segments of the travel and tourism industry.
More than 4800 exhibitors and 120,600 trade visitors from 60 countries and domestic gathered for OTM ,making it the perfect meeting place for networking, face-to-face interaction, deals of tomorrow and building successful long-term business relationships.
Sri Lanka Tourism, under the guidance of the Minister of Economic Development, has identified Korea as an emerging market for Sri Lanka with high potential for growth. Sri Lanka Tourism is all prepared to roll out a mega outdoor promotional campaign in Korea within the next month with the aim of increasing destination awareness among Korean travelers.
Within the first quarter of year 2014 Korean market arrivals recorded a 16.7% increase compared to the same period last year. Korean Air started operating direct flights to Sri Lanka from 2013 onwards securing easy passage for Korean Travelers to Sri Lanka. With all these promotions in place Sri Lanka Tourism hopes to reach the goal of 2.5 million visitors by the year 2016.
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals recorded a growth of 20.3 % in May 2014 compared to the same period in year 2013. During the month of May, 2014 recorded 90,046 tourists arrivals in the country compared to the 74,838 arrived in May 2013 which is highest in foreign tourist history for month of May .
The cumulative total of foreign tourist arrival for first five months of 2014 is 624,178 giving record of a 26.5 percent increase from the 493,294 came during the corresponding period in 2013.
Most of the tourists arrived from Western Europe with 200,605 tourist arrivals in the first five months of this year recording an 18 % increase over corresponding 2013 figures. France recording 31.2%, Germany 22.6% followed by UK topped the list of Western Europe. Arrivals from South Asia, the other region from where most of the tourists come, increased by 19.4 percent in the year with 145,373 tourists visiting the island while, arrivals from India increased 22.3 percent to 64,327 in May.
In the first five months of the year 108,867 East Asians arrived in the island, an increase of 51.9 percent. Number of Chinese tourists arriving in the island jumped by an impressive 139.6 percent and recorded 43,885.
Arrivals from Eastern Europe increased 46.6 percent with the arrival of 82,271 tourists. Most of the arrivals from Eastern Europe were from Russia with 36,655 arrivals increasing by 77.4 percent.
Arrivals from North America rose by 12.3 percent with 28,699 visitors for the first five months in the year while Tourist arrivals from Middle East rose in May by 34.8 percent to 5,016 and for the year 28,708 tourists arrived from the region.
Notably Foreign tourist arrival from China reached second highest pushing second traditional market of UK in to third place.
In the first five months of the year, 20,539 Australians arrived in the country, an 11.1 percent increase from the previous year.
Sri Lanka has earned US$ 814.9 million from tourism in the first five months of this year, an increase of 34 percent compared to last year.
Sri Lanka met its tourist arrival target of 1.2 million for the year 2013 with the numbers up by 26.7 percent from the 1,005,605 arrived in 2012 and earning US$ 1.718 billion in 2013.
The Tourism authorities have rolled out a global mega promotional campaign during this year in order to keep the momentum going to achieve 2.5 million tourist arrivals target by 2016 , making Sri Lanka, the emerging Wonder of Asia.
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