Thursday, April 2, 2020
Sri Lanka’s flag carrier SriLankan Airlines has decided to suspend all operations for nearly two weeks. The airline mentioned that the decision has arrived in the bleak times caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This is the biggest challenge faced by the …
Saturday, March 21, 2020
On Friday, Sri Lanka imposed a nationwide weekend curfew in its densly populated region of 1.9 billion people as South Asian countries escalated efforts to check the spread of coronavirus. The rate of new infections in Pakistan, India …
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
A silver lining may be slowly be coming up for the tourism industry of Sri Lanka as European holidaymakers are looking for alternative destinations to keep away from coronavirus-hit East and South-East Asian regions as the sector encounters a huge …
Friday, February 21, 2020
The Sri Lankan government is planning to establish a new model for boosting tourism in the island country, which will guarantee greater coordination, maximization of resources and delivery of efficient and effective services, said the Minister of Industrial Export, Investment …
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
The number of tourists from overseas to Sri Lanka has dropped for the tenth month at a stretch in January 2020 by 6.5 percent compared to a year before while recovering slowly from the decline post Easter Sunday attacks in …
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Sri Lanka’s newly appointed consul general in Dubai and the northern emirates, Nalinda Wijerathna spoke about how the consulate plans to take the bilateral ties forward. Wijerathna said that Sri Lanka and the UAE have been enjoying cordial and …
Friday, January 3, 2020
Sri Lanka has extended the free visa-on-arrival scheme till April 30, 2020 for the citizens of 48 countries, including India, Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said, as the country tries to revive the tourism sector which was hit by the Easter …
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Mr.Alexi Gunasekera, Minister ( Commercial), Embassy of Sri Lanka and Mr.Chinthaka Liyanaarachchi, Assistant Director-Marketing spoke exclusively with Travel And Tour World during the 7th edition of Chengdu International Tourism Expo (CITE) at the Century City New International Convention and …
Thursday, December 12, 2019
In 2018, Sri Lanka was one of the top destinations in the world for foreign tourists, but the Easter bombings in April 2019 dealt a huge blow to the country’s tourism sector. The officials now point to a tourism revival. …
Thursday, December 5, 2019
The tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka hit the 1.6 million mark in November with the arrival of over 175,000 tourists to the country by the end of the month, statistics from the Sri Lanka Tourism Ministry showed on Thursday. …
