Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau Chairman elected as Vice Chair of UNWTO

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau Chalaka Gajabahu has been elected as the Vice Chair of the United Nations World Tourism
the UNWTO and it is a subsidiary organ of the Executive Council
The Committee was established at the 95th session of the Executive Council in Belgrade, Serbia in May 2013
factors
This process has also included identifying, developing and harmonizing concepts, models and operational definitions used in the tourism
value chain, Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau said.Speaking regarding the matter, Mr
In my capacity as Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau, under the egis of the Hon
Minister of Tourism Harin Fernando I understand the importance of fine tuning a dialogue mechanism between the public sector and the private
sector to improve tourism competitiveness
This opportunity will undoubtedly give me a platform to further develop and enhance the competitiveness landscape which is a vital tool in
activities of the Secretariat as well as other collaborating organizations in order to ensure consistency and consensus in the delivery of
the outputs and reinforce the official position of the Organization.With the objective to provide UNWTO Members and other tourism
establish a common ground for a clear harmonized understanding of operational definitions used in the tourism value chain; with quantitative
and qualitative factors that explain competitiveness at the destination level which may be translated into technical guidelines facilitating
a methodology for destinations to identify and evaluate their own factors of competitiveness, the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau says.