Australia to assist Lanka’s tourism and cottage industry development

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Australia has been proving around US$ 19 million annually for tourism sector; cottage industry development in Sri Lanka, Australian High
Commissioner to Sri Lanka - Maldives, David Holly told the Sri Lanka Australia New Zealand Business Council (SLANZBC) AGM at Cinnamon Grand
on Thursday.He said that these were mainly to train handicraft, handloom and other such creative people who could manufacture and sell them
for the tourism sector
&We are also actively conducting workshops and training youth in the North East in self-employment projects,& he said.