Focus on Lanka's investor friendly atmosphere at Focus 2007 in LA

Host of attractions at two day exhibition:

LOS ANGELES: Focus Sri Lanka 2007, a trade, investment and exhibition which will be held in Los Angeles today and tomorrow will showcase Lanka as a paradise of investor friendly atmosphere.

Sri Lanka's Consul General in Los Angeles, California, Jaliya Wickremasuriya told Asian Tribune that more than 20 Sri Lankan trade and investment entities will participate in the 'Focus Sri Lanka' exhibition.

American businessmen will also learn at the exhibition that Sri Lanka had an impressive economic growth in the past decade or so.

It is with the dissemination of this favourable scenario that the Sri Lanka Consulate General office expects to tie a lasting bond between the two countries' entrepreneurs at the 'Focus Sri Lanka's exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition is also geared to educate the Americans of the potential in Sri Lanka and familiarise the visiting Sri Lankan businessmen and investors to the American trade environment to make it easier for them to interact with American counterparts, Wickremasuriya said.

The two-day event will also disseminate Sri Lanka's rich cultural heritage, attractive tourist destinations, beautiful and eye-catching topography conducive atmosphere for the Hollywood film-makers to use Sri Lanka as their future film location, Wickremasuriya said.

Apart from the promotion of trade, investment and tourism, the Sri Lanka diplomatic post in Los Angeles will use the 'Focus Sri Lanka' exhibition to display the country's wide range of precious gems, high quality apparel ware found and popular in Caesar's Forum Shops in Las Vegas, natural/organic products, Ceylon Tea and Sri Lanka's indigenous Ayurvedic medicines fast catching in the United States as alternative medicines.

The highlight of the two-day exhibition will be the performance of 'Channa-Upuli Dance Ensemble'.

Child star of the 2007 Grammy Awards winning film Water Sarala Kariyawasam and Sri Lankan Test cricketers will be present at the exhibition.

Participants will also have the opportunity to browse the 'Cash and Carry' exhibit Hall preview and meet Sri Lankan exporters and buy merchandise.

The 'Focus Sri Lanka' exhibit hall is open to wholesale buyers tomorrow.