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Article: Sri Lanka focuses on Mideast.
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- Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2009
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Dubai: Despite the ongoing conflict in the country's northeast, Sri Lanka's Deputy Minister of Tourism Faiszer Musthapha has big hopes for developing Sri Lanka as a major tourist destination.
The Middle East region has been identified as one of the key source markets by the Sri Lankan government. As part of a tourism promotion initiative, Musthapha was in Dubai recently to attend a conclave of Sri Lankan diplomats based in the region. They discussed strategies for attracting more Arab tourists.
The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau has opened an office in Dubai to coordinate its promotional activities in the region. It is the sixth such office in the ...