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Sri Lanka to ink agreement with China's Alibaba
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IANS | 15 Aug, 2018
The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) will ink an agreement
with Alibaba's travel arm Fliggy to bring 1,000 travellers weekly to the
country in order to expand its growing tourism sector, Tourism Minister
John Amaratunga said on Tuesday.
Amaratunga said after obtaining
the necessary approval, his ministry will sign a Memorandum of
Understanding with Alibaba next week, Xinhua news agency reported.
Supreme
Global Holdings Limited, the local company that has tied up with
Alibaba, will work closely with SLTPB on the project implementation,
which is expected to result in a positive large-scale impact on Sri
Lanka's tourism.
Further, Supreme Global also intends to promote
Alipay actively in Sri Lanka upon receiving the necessary clearances
thus taking Sri Lanka Tourism to new heights, especially among Chinese
tourists, Amaratunga said.
The minister expressed confidence that
Sri Lanka would comfortably achieve the 2.5 million target set for this
year, while noting that the country could achieve 3.5 million arrivals
in 2019 provided the global tourism outlook remains favourable.
Over
1.3 million tourists arrived in Sri Lanka in the first seven months of
2018, recording a 13.7 per cent growth compared with the same period of
last year.
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