By staging the Maldives Construction Fair in Male for the second consecutive year, Maldives Exhibition and Conference Services took on the role of a government agency, Managing Director, of South Asia Exhibition Services, Arjun Dharmadasa said.
He said that MECS, which was able to convince 30 Sri Lanka companies and organizations to participate in MCF 2009, had actually performed a function on behalf of the Sri Lankan government.
"Exhibitions in the Maldives do not generally attract huge crowds, but those who come are, by and large, persons interested in making purchases. In that sense, I would term MCF 2009 as a success. It has laid the foundation for further expansion."
The feedback was encouraging and it would take a while to determine the exact number of orders placed during the Fair and also its value in monetary terms, Dharmadasa said/
Managing Director of MECS, Mohammed Ajmal said that despite the global economic crisis, they were able to increase the number of stalls this year to 51, of which 30 were occupied by Sri Lankan companies.
Invest Maldives, he said, was earlier a very bureaucratic organization, but since President Nasheed assumed office, it had relaxed its rules and regulations with a view to attracting maximum foreign participation in the Maldivian economy.
Ajmal said that there is an urgent need to increase the number of Convention Centers and hotel rooms in Male and he has appealed to the Maldivian government, to address this issue as a matter of priority.
Source: lankatimes.com
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more hotel rooms and convention halls, in this crowded Male',
Lets think outside of Male` sea wall
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