Saudi Arabia to invest in Lankan tourism sector

  • 16/03/2005

Visiting Saudi Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Abdulaziz Alsaud assured President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga that Saudi Arabia was committed to assist Sri Lanka's reconstruction programme in the long term and also make substantial investments in the tourism sector. "We are willing to invest in Lanka's tourism on a large scale," Prince Al Waleed, Chairman of the Kingdom Holdings Company of Saudi Arabia, told President Kumaratunga. The Prince and the Saudi Arabian delegation met the President at President's House.