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Sri Lanka to lose 20-pct from $50 tourist visa to VFS Global: legislator

"Doesn’t' 10 dollars from that go to the company?

May 8, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka 'free' visa costs US$21.61 under VFS Global deal: legislator

So they are taking 21.65 dollars for a gratis visa when a tourist comes to Sri Lanka

May 8, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka VFS Global 12-year visa deal worth $840mn: legislator

The private contractor would earn up to 100 million dollars by 2035, he claimed

May 7, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka says to issue single entry tourist visa for $50 amid VFS crisis

It is not clear whether tourists will be forced to use the VFS global website

May 7, 2024 3 min read
Sri Lanka to lease 3,000 acres to boost tourism investments

Sri Lanka has aimed for record tourist arrival, revenue targets this year

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up 12-pct to June 18

Total visitors so far this year are 1,104,373.

Sri Lanka to repatriate Covid-stranded citizens from Indonesia, Russia, Bangladesh, Qatar, Belarus

Sri Lanka will repatriate citizens stranded in Indonesia, Russia, Bangladesh, Qatar and Belarus due to Coronaviris betwe...

May 21, 2020 1 min read

India to repatriate first batch of Covid-stranded citizens from Sri Lanka

The first batch of Indians stranded in Sri Lanka after India closed airports and halted flights will be taken giving pri...

May 19, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka tourist hotels ready to open in July, health rules drive costs up

Sri Lanka's hotels are ready to open for tourists in July if authorities give permission though health rules to contain ...

Chanka Jayasinghe
May 17, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka Resplendent Ceylon develops Covid-19 health and safety protocol

Resplendent Ceylon, a Sri Lanka based high end boutique hotel chain, said it had developed a Covid-19 health and safety ...

May 14, 2020 2 min read

SriLankan Airlines outbound flights to London, Tokyo, Hong Kong

State-run SriLankan Airlines is offering outbound tickets to London, Tokyo and Hong Kong on its booking engine on severa...

May 12, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals zero in April, 10,000 in country

Sri Lanka got zero tourist arrivals in April 2020, the tourism promotion office sending the total arrivals so far into t...

May 12, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka extends visas of tourists, foreigners till June 11 over Covid-19

Sri Lanka has extended visas of all foreign tourists and resident foreigners until June 11, the island's immigration off...

May 10, 2020 3 min read

Hemas funds Sri Lanka quarantine centre at Hotel Dolphin

Sri Lanka's Hemas group said it Club Hotel Dolphin in Waikkala, run as a quarantine centre at their expense has complete...

May 6, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka asks 11,000 tourists and expats to register at online support centre

Sri Lanka Tourism has asked an estimated 11,389 tourists and expatriates in the country to register at an online support...

May 5, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Jetwing Hotels provides premium Coronavirus quarantine at budget rate

Sri Lanka's hotels including upmarket Jetwing group have started providing hotels for premium quarantine services at bud...

May 4, 2020 3 min read
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Sri Lanka tourist agency assesses, supply, demand for post-Coronvirus strategy

Sri Lanka's tourism promotion agency said it is assessing supply with the UN backed program and is also looking at marke...

April 23, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka eyes post-Coronavirus tourism with tighter visa, health rules

Sri Lanka is making plans draw tourists after a Coronavirus crisis, with a raft of new operating rules for hotels, trans...

Tania Madies
April 22, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka hotels brace for 12-month slump on Covid-19 hit

Sri Lanka's tourism industry is bracing for a year long downturn with the Coronavirus crisis coming on top of a hit from...

Chanka Jayasinghe
April 22, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals down 70-pct in March 2020

Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals had dropped 70.8 percent from a year earlier to 71,370 in March 2020, amid a Coronavirus cr...

April 22, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka cabinet clears global tourism promotion campaign

Sri Lanka' cabinet of ministers had cleared a global promotion plan proposed by the tourism promotion office with no mod...

Chanka Jayasinghe
April 21, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka tourism leaders at Advocata online forum LIVE NOW on Coronavirus fallout

Advocata Institute, a Colombo-based think tank, is hosting an online discussion on April 21 from 1030hour with leaders o...

April 21, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka tourism leaders on Advocata online forum on April 21 on Coronavirus fallout

Colombo-based Advocata Institute, a think tank, said it is hosting an online discussion on April 21 at 1030hour with lea...

April 20, 2020 1 min read

Immigration Department transferred to Sri Lanka's Mahaweli Ministry

Sri Lanka's Department of Immigration and Emigration has been transferred to the Ministry of Mahaweli, Agriculture, Irri...

April 11, 2020 1 min read

British High Commissioner advises Britons in Sri Lanka to leave over Coronavirus

The British High Commissioner in Sri Lanka has advised all British nationals in the country to go back while flights are...

April 10, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka to allow citizens stranded over Coronavirus at 11 airports to return

Sri Lanka will allow over two dozen citizens stranded at several airports around the world over restrictions imposed to ...

April 9, 2020 1 min read