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Sri Lanka to hike tourist arrival target to 2.0mn for 2023

"The target for March 2023 was only 90,000, but we have exceeded that.

April 3, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka sees tourism upturn from last minute bookings

"The trend has changed even though we can't find a proper forecast for next month or the month after."

March 24, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka UDA to take back Krrish, Destiny, non-operational buildings in lands it owns

The valuation of the two buildings is yet to be done.

March 16, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka promoting MICE tourism to meet 12-pct of 2023 target

Targeting South Asia, Middle East and Europe

March 15, 2023 2 min read
Sri Lanka to get 16,000 tourists from Estonia, Baltic States: Udayanga Weeratunga

Visitors from Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova and Poland, will arrive in the country with tours arranged by JoinUp

Sri Lanka to get Estonia charter flight on Dec 20

From December 01 to 17 Sri Lanka had welcomed 100,750 tourists with around 6,500 arriving daily, over the last week

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals fall 7-pct in Jan 2020 amid virus, China down 15-pct

Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals dropped 7.4 percent from a year earlier to 226,094 and arrivals from China dropped 15 perce...

Mahadiya Hamza
February 3, 2020 1 min read

China virus outbreak: how governments have reacted

February 2, 2020 2 min read

Closing borders could allow China virus to spread faster: WHO

February 1, 2020 2 min read

WHO says 'no reason' to close borders with China, quarantine healthy travellers

January 31, 2020 3 min read

Some operators cancelling Chinese group tours to Sri Lanka

Some tour operators have begun cancelling bookings from China to Sri Lanka as Beijing banned group travel from yesterday...

Chanka Jayasinghe
January 28, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka tightens visas for tourists from China

Sri Lanka has halted automatic issue of electronic travel authorization for tourists from China and will give approvals ...

January 28, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's fragmented state land hinders tourism development: minister

The fragmentation of state land among different institutions is hindering tourism development in Sri Lanka, a minister s...

January 27, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka in move to liberalise alcohol licenses to boost tourism

Provincial councils in Sri Lanka have been asked to liberalize beverage licenses to improve tourism receipts to the coun...

January 25, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka develops marketing strategy for tourism growth

The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau (SLTPB) has developed a long-term promotions plan focusing on major markets, whi...

January 22, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lankan hotel investments flat in Sept

Investments into Sri Lanka's tourism sector came to a standstill in the September quarter from three months earlier, off...

January 21, 2020 2 min read
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Bawa-designed Cinnamon Bentota Beach in Sri Lanka re-opens

Cinnamon Bentota Beach, a historically important 1967 hotel designed by Geoffrey Bawa who inspired an architectural styl...

January 20, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka extends Rs300mn SME loan to tourism sector

Sri Lanka will ask banks to extend new loans of up to 300 million rupee for small and medium scale (SME) businesses to t...

January 18, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka to get US$10.96mn Korean tourism grant

Sri Lanka will receive a 10.96 million US dollar grant from Korea to develop the tourism industry in the island nation, ...

January 18, 2020 1 min read

Hollywood celebs wax lyrical on Sri Lanka in big boost to tourism

A host of Hollywood celebrities visited Sri Lanka over the past week, poised to give the island's tourism industry, curr...

Chandeepa Wettasinghe
January 15, 2020 5 min read
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Sri Lanka to cut regulatory blocks to reach US$10bn tourism revenue target

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called for a target based plan to drive tourism revenue to 10 billion US do...

January 14, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka passport ranked among bottom 10-pct of the world

Sri Lanka's passport has been ranked 97 among 200 countries and territories in a global index of travel freedoms, droppi...

January 9, 2020 3 min read

Cinnamon FOT Summit keynote speaker Richard Quest features Sri Lanka on CNN Business Traveller

CNN's foremost international business correspondent and presenter Richard Quest will feature Sri Lanka in the newest edi...

January 7, 2020 2 min read

CeyEndurance triathlons to boost Sri Lanka's sports tourism

CeyEndurance, a new Sri Lankan triathlon series, is expecting to fill the gap left by the popular global IRONMAN series ...

Mahadiya Hamza
January 7, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals down 18-pct in 2019, near-full recovery in December

Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals in 2019 fell 18 percent from a year earlier to 1.9 million persons, following the Easter Su...

January 6, 2020 2 min read
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Tourism industry faces worst winter season in a decade

Sri Lanka’s tourism industry is bracing for the worst winter season in 11 years, with lower numbers of tourists, who a...

Chandeepa Wettasinghe
December 31, 2019 4 min read
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