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Destination Sri Lanka presented at TNM – Sweden’s premier tourism event
Sri Lanka Tourism and the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Stockholm presented ‘Destination Sri Lanka’ at the Travel News Market (TNM) – Sweden’s premier Tourism event last week at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre.
With Sri Lanka as a top tourist destination for 2022, opening its shores to the world traveller with minimum restrictions – especially for those fully inoculated the country’s unique and diverse tourism experience was showcased at the ‘SO SRI LANKA’ booth highlighting also the ease of travel and the country’s warm and welcoming spirit. Ceylon Tea and Gems were also featured. The high foot count and involved interactions at the Sri Lanka booth with tour companies, travel agents, media including bloggers and freelancers and tourism schools indicates a renewed interest in the destination. fourteen Sri Lanka tour companies utilised the booth at the annual TNM to project their companies and packages they offer.
The SO SRI LANKA booth was jointly inaugurated on Thursday by Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Sweden and Denmark Dharshana M. Perera, CEO – Travel News Market Nils Norberg, President PATA Sweden Chapter Robert Hallin, Secretary General, Sweden Sri Lanka Business Council Leif Ohlson, and Honorary Consul of Sri Lanka in Gothenburg Marcus Pettersson.
The Sweden-Sri Lanka Business Council and Secretary General Leif Ohlson as well as the SriLankan Airlines GSA in Sweden also participated at the TNM, 2021.
The Scandinavian region has been identified as an emerging priority market for tourism to Sri Lanka. Tourism-related trade fairs in Sweden and Denmark are key industry events. The annual Travel News Market (TNM ) – a B2B event – will reconvene on Thursday, 22 November 2022, in Stockholm.
The Paddy Marketing Board has approximately 115,000 metric tonnes of paddy stocks purchased from farmers, which are currently stored in the Board’s warehouses, and it has been planned to retain a sufficient buffer stock from these reserves and sell the remaining quantity in order to provide the necessary storage space and financial resources for the purchase of paddy from farmers during the upcoming Yala season.
Accordingly, the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation to sell the aforementioned paddy stocks
following a formal tender procedure.
The Promotion of Export Agriculture Act, No. 46 of 1992 provides the legal provisions for regulating and promoting the export agriculture sector in this country.
Taking into consideration administrative changes and sectoral developments that have taken place over time, approval was granted at the Cabinet Meetings held on 2023-09-04 and 2025-08-11 to amend the said Act, which has not been updated for over 30 years.
The proposed amendments are intended to amend the designations of the Head of the Department of Export Agriculture and other officials, and to provide a clearer definition of the term “the export agricultural crop.”
Accordingly, the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation to publish in the Government Gazette the Draft Export Agriculture Promotion (Amendment) Bill, prepared in all three languages by the Legal Draftsman to amend the Export Agriculture Promotion Act, No. 46 of 1992, and thereafter submit the same to Parliament for its concurrence
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