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Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port says cruise calls rising

Over the year, 22 cruise ships had called at the port with 7,500 passengers.

December 28, 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

December 21, 2023 1 min read

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

December 20, 2023 1 min read

2.1bn won from Korea tourism for community-based projects in Sri Lanka provinces

Community-based tourism development project will focus on Central, Northern and Eastern provinces with 2.172bn won grant

December 13, 2023 1 min read
Sri Lanka targets 3 million tourist arrivals in 2025: Minister

Sri Lanka missed the 2.3 million target last year

Sri Lanka’s tourism revenue up 34.5-pct in January

Tourism arrivals also have risen 19.9-pct in the first 44 days of the year

Sri Lanka's Cinnamon to lease new Maldives resort

Sri Lanka's Cinnamon Resorts, a unit of John Keells Holdings Plc is in talks to wrap up a 10 - year renewable lease for ...

May 25, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka PM briefs ambassadors in bid to lift travel advisories

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and members of the security establishment had met foreign ambassadors ba...

May 24, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka tourism boosted by regional MICE association

Sri Lanka's tourism industry received support from the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) to recov...

May 22, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka's struggling hotels get fillip from local demand

Sri Lanka’s hotel demand surged during the Vesak holiday weekend with local bookings, after the industry took a h...

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May 21, 2019 2 min read

Johanne Jayaratne appointed chairman of Sri Lanka tourism regulator

Johanne Jayaratne has been appointed the chairman of the state tourism regulator, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Auth...

May 15, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka to lure tourists from Thailand, short haul markets

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government plans to launch a promotional campaign in Thailand as part of measure...

May 14, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka expects quicker recovery in tourism: Minister

Sri Lanka's tourism minister said he expected the country's tourism industry to bounce back in as little as three months...

May 13, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka eyes security audit to build tourist confidence

Sri Lanka is planning an independent security audit to build confidence among tourists, State Minister Harsha de Silva s...

May 11, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka tightens security, plans travel insurance to boost arrivals

Sri Lanka is planning travel insurance for tourists and has tightened security at hotels and tourist attractions while m...

May 8, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka announces debt moratorium, subsidized credit for tourism

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka will give a one year debt moratorium and subsidized working capital for the tourism sector, Stat...

May 7, 2019 2 min read
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Sri Lanka tourist industry seeks security statement to get back on track

Sri Lanka's tourist industry is looking to recover from a massive blow from Easter Sunday bombings, with tighter securit...

May 7, 2019 3 min read

Guns outnumber guests at bombed Sri Lanka hotel

At the Cinnamon Grand Colombo, one of six Sri Lankan targets hit by suicide bombers on Easter Sunday, the silence that r...

May 7, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka tourist hotels seek tax waivers, debt relief up to two years

Sri Lanka's tourist industry has debt and tax relief of up to two years for the industry and its workers following Easte...

May 6, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals fall 7.5 percent in April after bombings

Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka fell 7.5 percent from a year earlier to 166,975 in April amid the Easter Sunday bombings, ...

May 6, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka to enter global value chains with Indian, Chinese links: CB Governor

Sri Lanka will have better prospects to enter global value chains with closer links to India and China, Central Bank Gov...

May 6, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka Cabinet committee mulls ways to help tourism

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government is looking at ways to help revive tourism after Easter Sunday’...

April 30, 2019 1 min read

India advises against travel to Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – India, the largest source market for tourists to Sri Lanka, has advised against non-essential trave...

April 29, 2019 1 min read

Dutch to fly tourists home from Sri Lanka within days

Hundreds of Dutch tourists will be flown home in the coming days from Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter bombings, acco...

April 27, 2019 2 min read

TUI scraps trips to Sri Lanka, sends rescue plane

TUI, and European travel firm said it will stop selling Sri Lanka, send a rescue plane to take off those who wanted to r...

April 27, 2019 2 min read

US follows UK to tighten Sri Lanka advisory to all but essential travel

The United States has tightened its advice on Sri Lanka to 'all but essential travel' following as authorities hunt down...

April 27, 2019 2 min read