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Widening paths to promote tourism


Chief guest Industry and Commerce Ministry Secretary
Anura Siriwardene with the organisers. Pictures by Sarath Peiris

Opening a wider path to promote the tourism industry in Sri Lanka the Hotel Hospitality & Food (HHF) 2012 fair took place for the second time at the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Centre from October 18 to the 20.

HHF focuses on catering to the needs of the hotel and hospitality industry to upgrade the industry and promote it among other countries. The ultimate target is to make Sri Lanka the tourism hub of the region with the use of country's natural location and resources plus foods.

HHF 2012 consisted of many tourist attractions, showcasing an inter-hotel culinary competition among chefs of leading hotels, hotel uniforms fashion shows and many industry related seminars and workshops aiming the progress of the industry. Its visitor campaign was directed at professionals engaged in the hotel and hospitality sector, food and beverage procurement and investors and operators of hotels in Sri Lanka and regional markets such as Maldives.

"The Industry and Commerce Ministry has selected 20 firms for the Food Safety Certification programme and also targeting another 20 industries to gain HACCP or ISO 22000 international standard in food sector.

"It is significant that the event is taking place at a time when we see strong growth in our tourism industry resulted by the development visions of the President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa. Interestingly, the strongest increase in arrivals was from both Eastern and Western Europe despite the economic downturn in the region. We are expecting more than one million tourists this year", Industry and Commerce Ministry Secretary Anura Siriwardene said.

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