3 powerful MICE events in Nov.
View(s):Sri Lanka’s MICE sector is going to be busy next month with three major conferences in the largest-ever grouping of business visitors in a single month.
The events kick off tomorrow October 31 when Colombo hosts the all-important French travel agents congress till November 5 with the participation of over 300 agents and others.
This is followed by a major religious summit organised by the Bishops Conference of Sri Lanka with another 300 guests including eight Cardinals and 176 Bishops from South East Asia from November 28 to November 4 in Negombo. Tourism Minister John Amaratunga referred to the event as ‘religious tourism’ when he addressed hoteliers in Colombo on Tuesday.
The third event is a mega meeting of representatives of Lions clubs in South Asia, Africa and West Asia in November 30 to December 3 in Colombo involving 2,500 delegates, the largest gathering-ever for a single MICE event.