The Vagabrothers at the Dutch Hospital Complex with SLTPB Chairman Dehan Senevirathne, SLTPB Managing Director Sutheash Balasubramaniam and Chaminda Munasinghe
Sri Lanka Tourism’s global promotion reached towards legendry travel YouTubers ‘Vagabrothers’ to welcome them to experience true essences of Sri Lanka as part of their world touring.
Having over millions of globally engaged active social media audience (mainly on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook), Vagabrothers (https://www.vagabrothers.com/) are one of the top ranked, multi award winning YouTube travel vloggers in the world to visit destination Sri Lanka in 2018 under the Sri Lanka Tourism Visiting Bloggers Program.
As a direct result of the Sri Lanka Tourism’s international promotions for travel bloggers, vloggers and social media content creators, Vagabrothers (which include Mak Ayling and Alex Ayling), visited Sri Lanka during the month of October in a mission to explore deep roots of Destination Sri Lanka to share their experience with their global audience.
With our 1.7 million average monthly views for their channel, Vagabrothers share some of the most engaging travel content to inspire global travel community. Over 740,000 of their weekly loyal subscribers spread around the world covering USA, UK and Europe, Canada, and Australia as well as from India. Age group of their audience diverse from 18 to over 65 years age categories.
Vagabrothers were invited by Sri Lanka Tourism under the Visiting Blogger Program-2018, for 10 days tour throughout the island and offered them well diverse experience to understand what makes Sri Lanka so unique and exciting to add on to travel bucket list of global travellers.
The tailor-made travel content offered by Sri Lanka Tourism was blended with some of the most popular tourist attractions (Sigiriya, Dambulla, Kandy, Galle Dutch Fort, Colombo, etc.) as well as with some of the lesser known locations such as Riverston and Knuckles Mountain Range, Beragala, Wellawaya, Diyaluma Falls, etc.
Moreover their program designed to offer greater experience on nature, wildlife (Kaudulla, Minneriya), culture and lifestyle and amazing palm beaches. Vagabothers have experienced from the nation’s favourite street feast to some of most popular Sri Lankan crabs to enrich their daily vlogs about our island nation. Local Ayurveda, traditional way of life in rural areas has taken their attention throughout their journey.
By endorsing destination Sri Lanka the brothers prised the island beauty: “Whether you surf or not there is no shortage of reasons to visit Sri Lanka. From the iconic Sigiriya Citadel Rock to the thousands of wild elephants roaming in the island.”
Together with vagabrothers one of the uprising lifestyle vloggers on YouTube Carolyn Ann Bacon who goes as ‘carrierad’ on You Tube and Instagram with over 300,000 social media follower base visited Sri Lanka to let work know about Island Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan Ayurveda Healings.
Upon travelling over 50+ countries around the world, Vagaborthers has stated, “Sri Lanka as a real value for money destination with great diversity.”
Upon hosting over 36 travel bloggers and influencers from around the world by creating a global reach over 33 million from 530 plus various social media and blogging contents, Sri Lanka Tourism has gained greater success in terms of creating a travel dream in Sri Lanka. Moreover, in the beginning of the years, Sri Lanka tourism has extended their global travel blogger promotions to Europe and USA by taking part of lucrative international destination promotional events such as TBEX – Europe and North America to welcome some of the most high profile travel bloggers and social media content creators to destination Sri Lanka. Local Hospitality partners such as Movenpick Hotel Colombo, Amaya Hotels & Resorts, Jetwing Hotels & Resorts (Jetwing Kaduruketha), Tangerine Group of Hotels (The Grand Nuwara Eliya) collaborated with Sri Lanka Tourism in order to promote Sri Lanka as an ideal experience oriented travel destination for potential global travellers those who seek for unique experiences.
