The first day of the 26th Moscow International Travel and Tourism Exhibition successfully ended with the dinner arranged for the delegation of Sri Lankan Participants of MITT 2019. The Dinner was attended by the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka, and was hosted by Ms. Chathurika Perera, the Second Secretary (Commercial) of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow.

As in the previous three years, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce will be organizing the "Sri Lanka Investment and Business Conclave 2019" on June 18-20, 2019 in Colombo.

The Moscow International Travel and Tourism Exhibition (MITT) is one of the top five travel exhibitions in the world and the largest one in the sector of tourism in Russia. Sri Lankan companies have been active exponents at this annually held exhibition over the last few years. At the MITT 2019, the Sri Lankan tourism and travel sector was represented by 13 companies: Let's See Asia, Aitken Spence Travels, Delux Holidays, Siddhalepa Ayurveda and Anarva, Andrew the Travel Company, Deluxe Vacations, RIU Hotel and Resorts, Ceylon My Dream, Existing Travel Holidays, Mount Lavinia Hotels and Resorts, Hikkaduwa Beach Hotel, Onyx Sri Lanka, Cinnamon Hotel and Resort.

March 11, 2019 marked a visit of H. E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation, accompanied by Madame Sanja Jayatilleka, to the Russian People's Friendship University (RUDN), one of the most popular and widely-known in Sri Lanka Russian higher education institutions.

On March 7, 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka paid a visit to Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), who holds a PhD in History and has taught Russian foreign policy at universities around the world and headed several public organizations operating in the fields of higher education, social sciences and social development.

On March 7, 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka met Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of the 'Russia in Global Affairs', a respected quarterly journal.
Fyodor Lukyanov is the Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club Foundation, and Member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).