Category: Tourism
Emirates to increase services to Colombo to 7 a week from 3 May
Emirates has announced it will increase its services to Colombo from six to seven flights a week, with the seventh weekly flight commencing 3rd May. The additional service will serve rising market demand and enhance connectivity to and from Colombo via Dubai. The added flight will operate every Monday. Emirates flight EK650 will depart Dubai […]
SriLankan Airlines announces partnerships with industry experts to promote tourism
The tourism industry connoisseurs – Uga Escapes, Walkers, and Taru Villas have joined hands with SriLankan Airline’s leisure arm – SriLankan Holidays to establish a multi-brand collaboration and partnership to add value to their customers’ holiday experience. These collaborative partnerships intend to promote domestic and inbound tourism through packaged holidays and thereby revive the national […]
SriLankan Airlines welcomes Indian delegation to Sri Lanka
SriLankan Airlines in a bid to recommence Indian tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka under the proposed bio-bubble tourist arrival concept successfully completed a familiarization tour for Indian media and travel trade professionals recently. A delegation of tour operators, agents, and senior editors representing influential media institutions concluded a familiarization tour in Sri Lanka. The delegation […]
Entry requirement for Sri Lankans lifted
Under the directive of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the Foreign Ministry reviewed the entry procedure today, 06 April 2021, as a measure of relief for prospective Lankan returnees. Under the new procedure, Sri Lankans, dual citizens who travel on Sri Lankan passports, spouses and unmarried children of Sri Lankans, who are foreigners, and Sri Lankan seafarers arriving by […]
CBB sets sights on enhanced SL-UK trade with British Chambers of Commerce
The Council for Business with Britain (CBB) is now a member of the British Chambers of Commerce and marked this collaboration with an open networking event. The virtual gathering titled ‘The Power of a Global Network’ gave CBB members and other businesses across Sri Lanka a platform to connect with over 50 Regional Chambers of […]
SLTDA approves Bolagala floating agro tourism resort in Katana
Bolagala Floating Agro Tourism Resort in Katana located close to the Negombo tourism hub will be the newest addition to the inventory of unique experiences for tourists visiting Sri Lanka. This is the first-ever floating resort in Sri Lanka created adopting an agro-tourism theme consists of 50 floating cabanas, including 10 GPS tracker equipped cabanas that could […]
EXECUTIVE, Sri Lanka’s top-notch business travel partner ties up with onyx hospitality group & Mrs. World
Executive, the premier travel partner of all business travelers to and within Sri Lanka has recently tied up with ONYX Hospitality Group providing luxurious travel convenience to OZO Hotels and Amari Galle. Puneet Dutta, General Manager of Amari Galle – Sri Lanka was excited to share his thoughts on the new partnership. “Exceeding our guest […]
Don’t listen to the aunties! Young people can find a great career in Tourism and Hospitality
By Jekhan Aruliah I first met Sinnaththurai Jeyakumar in 2020 at a particularly good dinner in Jetwing Jaffna’s elegant restaurant. We had eaten well, enjoyed a bottle of wine, and were feeling good. As we thanked our waiter, he asked if we would like to meet the chef. A moment later there he was. Smart, […]
Sri Lanka lifts UK travel restriction
The temporary travel restriction introduced by the Government on travels originating from the United Kingdom to Sri Lanka on account of the new Covid -19 Variant in the UK has been lifted with immediate effect. At a meeting presided by the President, it was decided to relax the restrictions on travels from the UK subject […]
BMICH and SriLankan Airlines in agreement to help sustain MICE tourism
SriLankan Airlines together with the country’s premier meeting, events, and function hosting venue BMICH, have come together to promote MICE tourism in Sri Lanka. This agreement between two pioneers in their respective fields will serve to reinforce the positioning of Sri Lanka as a key MICE destination in the future. Sri Lanka’s premium venue for […]
Aitken Spence Travels to welcome first charter flight from Kazakhstan tomorrow
Aitken Spence Travels, the leading Destination Management Company in Sri Lanka working in partnership with TUI Kazakhstan, will welcome the country’s first charter from Kazakhstan tomorrow (6) after the airports reopened for tourist arrivals. According to the company, there will be two charters operating from Kazakhstan and it will be a first since the Sri […]
“SL opens its doors to World” announced at travel trade awareness session in Mumbai
A virtual awareness session for the Travel Trade in Western India was held on 19 January 2021 to announce the re-opening of Sri Lanka for international tourists from 21st January 2021. This was the first awareness session organized for the Indian Market to inform of Sri Lanka’s re-opening and the “safety protocols” associated with the re-opening […]