Sri Lanka Tourism stakeholders with 15 travel industry participants representing local travel companies and hotels participated at the 30th anniversary International Forum and Exhibition OTDYKH Leisure 2024 at the Expocentre Fairgrounds, Russia recently.
This year, the event was a great success, bringing together more than 9,000 industry professionals on one site, including official representatives of Russian regions, delegations from foreign countries, leading tour operators and travel agencies, hotels and accommodation facilities, online booking agencies, MICE agencies and concierge servicesand other representatives of the tourism industry and related fields.
For 30 years now, OTDYKH Leisure has remained the only business event in Russia of such scale before the start of the autumn-winter tourist season, helping the professional community solve the problem of stimulating year-round demand for travel both in Russia and abroad. These events have helped Russia to be the number one source destination for Sri Lanka for some months duringhte winter.
These prominent events serve as effective platforms for strengthening business connections and advancing bilateral relations between the two countries especially considering the current situation occurred due to the military unrest between Russia and Ukraine.
Given the importance of Russian inbound tourism, Sri Lanka Tourism decided to participate in the Leisure (OTDYKH) Travel Fair 2024.