Category: Tourism
Sri Lanka to have “open sky” policy to boost tourist arrivals : Ravi K
May 25, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s new rulers say that the Indian Ocean Island will open skies as a way forward policy to improve tourist arrivals.“We’re going to have an open skies policy that will help tourism and also help grow the business to other countries,” Ravi Karunanayake, Minister of Finance said, at a […]
Disney film “Monkey Kingdom” filmed in Sri Lanka crosses US$14.3mn ticket sales
May 18, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka tourism promotion office says, the Island is expecting a US tourism boom following the recently produced Disney documentary movie “Monkey Kingdom’s ticket sales crossing 14.3 million US dollars as at day 28 in United States. “This is a big win for Sri Lanka as in the documentary category […]
Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up 8.5-pct in April 2015; India top gainer
May 08, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 8.5 percent to 122,217 in April 2015, from a year earlier driven by growth in the Indian and Chinese markets, official data shows. Top generating market for April, India rose 34 percent to 23,048 from a year earlier while recording a 23 percent rise in […]
Sri Lanka’s tourism sector profits should trickle down to people: Minister
Apr 24, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tourism Minister told LBO that the profits from Island’s tourism sector should go to the hands of the common people.Tourism Industry is highly depend on manpower which requires skilled and unskilled labour. “Looking into the future, tourism is a sector that is developing at a rapid pace and […]
Sri Lanka to pitch foreign cruise liners to expand cruise tourism: Tourism Promotion
Apr 22,2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourism promotion bureau said that it plans to attract more international cruise liners in order to expand Island’s cruise tourism business.“We will make a pitch for top cruise organizations like Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and MSC to have turnaround visits and include Sri Lanka in to the itinerary,” Rohan Athukorala […]
Sri Lanka’s open air zoo opens doors to public; entrance free from today to 01 May
Apr 17, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s public will be given the opportunity of visiting its first open air zoo, adjoining the Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawala free of charge from today until the 01st of next month, a government media report said. “The public will be given the opportunity of visiting this zoo free of […]
Sri Lanka’s first open air zoo,costs Rs862mn, sets to open in April 2015: 17 years to complete the construction
Apr 15, 2015 (LBO) –Sri Lanka’s first open air national zoological garden adjacent to the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is ready to open on Friday, April 17, Minister of Tourism and Sports Navin Dissanayake declared today. Sri Lanka has invested approximately 862 million rupees to build the zoo which 488 million rupees were funded from the […]
‘s Tourism Minister anoints elephants at Pinnawala orphanage
Apr 15, 2015 (LBO) –Sri Lanka’s Tourism Minister, Navin Dissanayake anointed about one hundred elephants at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, which is one of the major tourists attraction point in the Island. This was taken place at the auspicious time of 09.06 this morning (15) parallel to the National oil anointing ceremony which is a […]
Sri Lanka targets US tourists through “Monkey Kingdom” Disney movie
Apr 08, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka tourism promotion office says that the country is set to receive a massive boost from in its seventh key market USA with the recently launched Disney documentary movie ‘Monkey Kingdom’. “We need to do everything we can”, said Tourism Minister, Navin Dissanayake. “To make sure our tourism authorities […]
Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals up 18-pct in March 2015, 1st quarter up 13.6-pct
Apr 06,2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 18 per cent to 157,051 in March 2015 from a year earlier with a surge in tourist arrivals from China and cumulative as at end 1st quarter to 478,838 with a growth of 13.6 per cent, data from the state tourism promotion office showed. Sri Lanka […]
Sri Lanka to attract more Chinese tourists
Apr 02, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka plans to attract more Chinese tourists through a recently launched marketing strategy by Sri Lanka Tourism with a private- public partnership focusing only on China. “If we can build the new markets in china like Sichuan province which has 90 million people including two million who travel overseas […]
‘s Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel partially closed
Mar 30, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s five star hotel Cinnamon Lakeside will be partially closed from Monday till October 2015 for urgent repairs; owners of the hotel, Trans Asia said in a statement.The statement further stated that the repairs will be completed in October 2015.“We already closed the Pool. But the restaurant area and […]