Category: Tourism

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]