Dr. D. Venkateshwaran, Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Chennai, who met Dr. M. A. Mathiventhan, Tourism Minister of Tamil Nadu last week had a productive discussion focusing on tourism promotion of Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, among local communities respectively in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Additionally, they also discussed hosting a Sri …
Ahmedabad: Sri Lanka, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean, is back to normal after the recent political crisis and is looking to welcome more than 1 million tourists this year, the country’s tourism minister said. Sri Lanka and India share very close religious, historical, and cultural relations. Indians account for the highest number of tourists …
Sri Lanka’s Tourism Minister Harin Fernando on Saturday said as things get back to normal after the recent political crisis in the island nation, the government aims to receive at least 1 million tourists this year, mostly from India. Fernando, who was in Ahmedabad to promote tourism in the island nation, said religious and cultural …
The island is preparing new packages such as the Murugan-Shiva Shakthi trails Sri Lanka’s tourism officials, conscious of the dire need to shore up their country’s economy, plan to woo a greater number of Indian tourists, who constitute the single largest segment of foreign tourists, through new packages such as the Murugan-Shiva Shakthi trails. Their …
Written by Teena Marian Sri Lanka’s Tourism Development Authority says that the arrival of tourists has increased. The Director General of the Tourism Development Authority Dammika Wijesinghe said that over 17,000 tourists visit in the first two weeks of August. She said that tourists from European countries including the UK, India, and Canada have …
Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management (SLITHM) entered into an MOU with the Australian government-funded Skills for Inclusive Growth Programme (S4IG) managed by Palladium International Group, towards several strategic areas of cooperation. S4IG is a programme of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in accordance with the terms of a Subsidiary …
Under the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau’s Visiting Journalists & Blogger Programs, a group of high-profile Indian media personnel was invited to Sri Lanka from July 3 to July 11, to re-discover Indo-Sri Lanka historical relationships. Eight media personnel representing several key states & cities of India, including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad …
COLOMBO, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s Tourism Ministry has decided to issue longer visas for tourists arriving in the country in order to revive the crisis-hit tourism industry following the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis, a senior official from the ministry said Monday. The official told Xinhua that following a proposal submitted to …
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By Dylan Wickremasinghe This year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of House of Travels & Tourism (PVT) LTD as a company. When we look back on how far we’ve come and all we’ve accomplished, a lot of words come to mind – challenging, fulfilling, unexpected, humbling. But one word specifically stands out – …
