TOURISM SUMMIT 2015

First summit to be held at the Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo on 28th September (World Tourism Day) based on the theme ‘Future of Tourism and Responsible Tourism for Driving Revenue’,

With the fast and increasing speed of technological development and the increasing globalization, Travel & Tourism has been a point of focus globally.

Following the Post-Millennial era, the Tourism Industry is experiencing rapid growth as well as dynamic change as with all other Industries. However, research suggests that Travel &

Tourism will be one of the most dominant industries by 2025 and beyond as mobility becomes easier and cheaper and interest to travel increases.

Together with this boom and other infrastructure development it is important that the relevant stakeholders in the Tourism Industry are well aware of future travel trends as well as responsible practices to be adopted in order to optimize the opportunity we have in this changing landscape of tourism.

The Cinnamon Future of Tourism Summit will be held on the 28th of September 2015 at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo and will be attended by approximately 250 travel industry leaders in

Sri Lanka and from the Region along with Global experts on Tourism and Responsible Travel as Speakers.
The keynote speech on “How Sustainable is our Future” will be delivered by Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, Vice Chair of the Nobel Prize winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007).

Other speakers include of Dr. Roland Conrady, Scientific Director of ITB Berlin, the world’s leading travel trade fair, Prof. Sarath Kotagama speaking on “”Responsible product innovation”, Dr. Ian Yeoman speaking on “Tomorrow’s Tourist”, Robert Govers speaking on “Destination Branding”, April Rinne speaking on “Shared Economy principle”, Renne Massatti representing Trend One who will be giving an innovative presentation on “The World in 2025” and Shabori Das from Euromonitor analyzing some of the key travel trends for the future.

Online tickets can be bought via bit.ly/fottickets
Contact the Hotline on +94 712 070 972 or mail to: info@futureoftourism.co
Read more: http://www.futureoftourism.co/

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The Sri Lankan High Commission in Canberra would like to keep in touch with Sri Lankans and persons of Sri Lankan origin living in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and other Pacific Islands as well as Sri Lankan community organisations in those countries.

If you are a current/former Sri Lankan or an office bearer of a Sri Lankan community organisation we invite you to register with the High Commission.

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