Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has suggested making the BIMSTEC area as a “borderless tourism” region to tap the huge potential offered by the countries in the seven-member grouping. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 67th annual convention of the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) — one of India’s oldest travel-related associations –, Wickremesinghe also spoke about the recovery the cash-strapped island nation has been making since the unprecedented economic crisis last year.
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional grouping that comprises India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan. “We are trying to make tourism new and make more use of the potential. We faced bankruptcy in Sri Lanka (and) now that we are getting out of it, the debt restructuring…
