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by KAREL ROBERTS RATNAWEERA

An emergency meeting of the Travel Trade Association of Sri Lanka (TAASL) was held on December 13 to elect members to the TAASL council following the resignation of office bearers, namely, three members and 14 council members, Wing Commander Noel Fernando, President, TAASL, said at a news briefing at the Galadari Hotel recently.

Wing Commander Fernando said that TAASL was a power to reckon with and was the association recognised as the main apex body for the travel and tourism sector. He said that TAASL, which was formed in 1974 represented the travel, tourism and tourist-related matters as one body and wanted the government to recognise it as the apex body representing the travel trade in the country. However, in an attempt to form another association, the Sri Lanka Association of Travel and Tourism (SLATT), had left TAASL in the lurch.

Vice President, TASSL, Nihal Fernando said that certain arbitrary decisions had been made to form another association for travel and tourism.

There was no need to form another association, he said. SLATT was formed, Fernando said, by imposing prohibitive membership fees to which TASSL objected. Wing Commander Noel Fernando said that the main purpose of the press briefing was to announce that TASSL was the only body accepted as representing the tourist industry in the country. He said that personal reasons could well have been behind the formation of another association.

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