14/01/2009 - Daily Mirror

Moragoda addresses Gujarat Tourism Session

 
 

Photo: (L-R) Sri Lankan Minister of Tourism, Milinda Moragoda; Singaporean Minister  of Foreign Affairs, Zainul Abidin Rashid; Chairman, Tata Group, Ratan Tata; Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga; Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi; former Japanese Ambassador Hideaki Domichi; Chairman, Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani at the opening ceremony).

 

The opening ceremony of the biennal "Vibrant Gujarat 2009" industrial summit was held on Monday at the Gujarat Science City in Ahamedabad. Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who inaugurated the summit, spoke on his plan to achieve a balanced growth of the industrial, agricultural and service sectors - with more emphasis on tourism. Sri Lanka Tourism Minister Milinda Moragoda was the keynote speaker at the Tourism session of the summit held later that afternoon when he spoke on Coastal Tourism, sharing the Sri Lankan tourism development experience with the international participants.