Category: News

SriLankan Airlines is organizing the first-ever series of meetings in Sri Lanka for Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Nepal as part of its ramped-up efforts to help the country rebuild and grow tourism. The airline’s commercial strategy and product portfolio caters to many different types of travellers, and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions) tourism remains a focal […]

SriLankan Airlines became the first airline in the world to receive a global award for its recycling project where scrap material from the airline was used to create a variety of lifestyle products. These efforts were rewarded when ‘Project Mathaka’ won the Best Aviation Sustainability Program Award at the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum […]

A mobile app dedicated to self-guiding tourist information, navigation and virtual tours was launched for the first time in Sri Lanka at the Wilpattu National Park, yesterday.   The mobile app was developed together with the Wildlife Conservation Department and GIZ Sri Lanka – Supporting Wilpattu National Park and Influence Zone Management in Sri Lanka, on […]

With a steady increase in vessels calling at the Hambantota International Port (HIP), and the port’s industrial park attracting numerous FDI projects, HIP has tied up with Royale Electronics Ltd., to establish a duty-free shop in their bonded area. The agreement was signed last week and the new facility will be opened for operations in […]

A mobile app dedicated to self-guiding tourist information, navigation and virtual tours was launched for the first time in Sri Lanka at the Wilpattu National Park, yesterday.   The mobile app was developed together with the Wildlife Conservation Department and GIZ Sri Lanka – Supporting Wilpattu National Park and Influence Zone Management in Sri Lanka, on […]

The Colombo to Badulla railway is so enchantingly beautiful that it’s become a bucket list adventure for many visitors. I was woken by the long, forlorn sound of the siren. The brakes hissed and screeched as our train chugged up the hill and pulled into Radella, a station along one of the most beautiful train […]

Driven by the country’s growing appeal as a low-cost tourist destination, following the steep depreciation of the rupee, Sri Lanka’s tourism industry is expected to make a swift and steady recovery in this winter season, with tourist arrivals surpassing pre-crisis levels in 2024. “Considering the near-term arrival growth, a swift recovery in the tourism industry […]

Aitken Spence Travels recently revealed its plans to revive the local cruise tourism industry that has been devastated over the past two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, by bringing down 10 cruise ships during the current winter season in addition to the three cruise ships that have already called at Sri Lankan ports. This […]

The tourism industry is off to a promising start in December with the average daily arrivals exceeding 2,300 as opposed to 1,900 in November, marking it the highest since April. Sri Lanka has welcomed 16,169 tourists during the first week of the month, largely driven by Russian travellers, the provisional data by the Sri Lanka […]

The Sri Lanka Tourist Development Authority (SLTDA) intrends to revive the plans to develop a marina in the Kalpitiya Lagoon under the tourism development plan of the Kalpitiya Master Plan. Speaking to The Sunday Morning Business, SLTDA Chairman Priantha Fernando stated that the blueprint for tourism development in Kalpitiya envisaged the development of a marina in the […]