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Tourism Act (No. 38 of 2005) - Sect 42

Sri Lanka Convention Bureau

42.
(1) There shall be established a body which shall be called and known as the Sri Lanka Convention Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "Convention Bureau") which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and which may sue or be sued in such name.
(2) The objectives of the Convention Bureau shall be :-
(a) to promote Sri Lanka as a venue for international, regional and domestic conventions, meetings and exhibitions, and as an incentive travel destination;
(b) to provide a common policy designed to ensure the co-ordinated and co-operative development and marketing of Sri Lanka as a venue for international, regional and domestic conventions, meetings and exhibitions and as an incentive travel destination;
(c) to co-ordinate and assist the promotion, development and servicing by the public and private sector of international, regional and domestic conventions, meetings exhibitions and incentive travel;
(d) to co-ordinate and co-operate with convention, exhibition and incentive travel organizers in Sri Lanka and overseas to ensure the successful staging of conventions, meetings, and exhibitions and the implementation of incentive travel programmes.
(e) to prescribe and enforce the maintenance of professional standards by persons or organizations involved in handling various aspects of conventions, meetings, exhibitions and incentive travel;
(f) to encourage and promote the development of professional skills among the different categories of persons or organizations involved in handling convention, meetings, exhibitions and incentive travel ;
(g) to affiliate with, obtain membership of, or enter into any agreement with any association or organization engaged in developing or promoting conventions, meetings, exhibitions and incentive travel;
(h) to provide guidance to the Bureau to develop, promote and market Sri Lanka as a tourist and travel destination both in Sri Lanka and abroad;
(i) to develop and promote adequate, attractive and efficient tourist services, inclusive of the hospitality industry, in a sustainable manner; and
(j) to do in Sri Lanka or elsewhere all such acts and things incidental or conductive to the attainment of the objects of the Bureau.

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