Sri Lanka’s tourism industry found a creative way to adapt to the pandemic: It embraced the outdoors. Outside a tent in Haputale, 112 miles east of Sri Lanka’s largest city, Colombo, I sipped a cup of sugary tea, the morning sun warming my hands and feet. Mist blanketed the surrounding tea gardens. All was quiet except …
The Sri Lanka Convention Bureau (SLCB) in collaboration with the High Commission of Sri Lanka in Bangladesh recently organised an interactive webinar in line with the objective of setting forth MICE tourism in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka continued a special relationship. All countries, particularly those in South Asia, have been severely …
Sri Lanka made a huge splash at the 26th World Route Development Forum (World Routes 2021), which took place in Milan, Italy, recently. By making its presence felt at the forum, Sri Lanka pitched its destination for global airlines to consider it as one of the top holiday destinations for the upcoming winter season and …
Manager, SriLankan Airlines, Melbourne, S. P. Mohan said frequency of direct flights from Colombo to Melbourne and Colombo to Sydney has already been increased to three per week to each destination and the frequency is expected to increase further with the passenger numbers growing. Mohan presented SriLankan Airlines products to Australian tourists via a webinar …
It will be followed by another campaign targeting France and Germany NDTV, Sky TV and BBC under consideration for the campaign By Nishel FernandoSri Lanka Tourism has begun evaluating proposals for a special winter tourism promotion campaign on digital media targeting India and United Kingdom (UK), followed by France and Germany. “We have already received …
Members of Sri Lanka’s tourism industry are set to gain useful insights from a survey of 10,000 travel consumers across 10 key Sri Lankan source markets, in a webinar organised by Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) in collaboration with Market Development Facility (MDF), Australia’s flagship private sector development program. “Business and Consumer Insights for …
The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Russia organized the “Sri Lanka Day- 2021″ jointly with the Russian State Library (RSL) at the conference hall of the Center for Oriental Literature of the RSL on 23 November 2021 with a view to promote Sri Lankan culture, Ceylon tea, tourism and a range of Sri Lankan products. …
If the trend continues from December to April during the current winter season, the tourism industry is predicting that 400,000 tourist swill arrive in the country from November 21 to April 22 and it is estimated to generate USD 6 billion. “With flexible and easier health protocols that were implemented by the government it was …
The upcoming Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2021, the foremost and most anticipated economic event of Sri Lanka, will host a line-up of contemporary dialogues under this year’s theme ‘Springboard for revival: Opportunity to reset’. Day two of the event will feature a session dedicated to ‘Survival to Recovery: Reviving Tourism Inflows’, on December 7, 2021. …
Sri Lanka Convention Bureau (SLCB) recently organised its first-ever virtual familiarisation tour of the newest and unique Meetings, Incentive travel, Conferences, Exhibitions (MICE) venues located in the areas from Colombo up to Beruwala and Colombo up to Waikkala. Over 100 participants representing local professional conference organisers, professional exhibition organisers, professional event organisers, meeting planners, wedding …
