Ceylon Explorations

06/04/2023

After years of civil war, Sri Lanka is now open to the world again and has become somewhat of a cultural magnet for weathered globe-trotters and travelers. It’s hardly surprising for a country in the middle of the Indian Ocean, teeming with surfing beaches, beautiful national parks full of colorfu...

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24/11/2022

Sri Lanka within 20 Best Countries in the World: 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards Conde’ Nast Traveler.

This South Asian nation packs a wallop into a teardrop-shaped island that’s only slightly larger than the state of West Virginia: Think high-elevation tea plantations that are eye-vibratingly green, national parks where sloth bears and endangered elephants roam, and friendly surf towns that, if you squint, might remind you of Costa Rica or Nicaragua 10 years ago. May we suggest Ahangama, with its indie-music venues, locavore cafés, and eco-boutiques. And then there’s the capital city of Colombo, where you can shop for local spices, fly kites along the waterfront, or even charter a yacht. As Sri Lanka has worked in recent years to secure its spot as a global tourism contender, with its trademark hospitality and good-nature—not to mention an ever-expanding roster of new hotels and resorts.
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12/11/2022

A high number of Sri Lanka’s tourism industry stakeholders participating in the World Travel Market (WTM) expressed confidence that with the renewed interest from airlines to fly to Colombo and destination promotional events such as the WTM, which begins today (7) in ExCel London, Sri Lanka will b...

12/11/2022

Sri Lanka has sent short-term and long-term goals to revive the billion-dollar tourism industry, amidst an unprecedented economic crisis, Minister of Tourism Harin Fernando told a foreign broadcaster on 08th November 2022. In an interview with CNN, the minister said that the short-term goal is to at...

12/11/2022

November has kicked off with significant improvement in tourist arrivals as the first seven days of the month saw over 12, 000 international visitors entering the country. Provisional data from Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed that for the first week of November a total of 12,....

31/07/2022

Sri Lanka’s tourism authorities remain optimistic of Russia’s national carrier Aeroflot resuming its scheduled flights between Colombo and Moscow, shortly.

Aeroflot suspended its commercial operations to Sri Lanka following a Sri Lankan court grounded one of its aircraft at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in connection to a legal dispute between the aircraft’s Irish owner and Aeroflot.

The incident created a diplomatic row and a few days after the enjoining order was lifted, the aircraft was allowed to leave BIA. “It will take few days before they resume operations. But definitely they will come back. In addition to the benefits they brought to our country, it was a profitable route for them as well. So, we will wait for few days,” Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority Chairman Priantha Fernando said.

However, the officials at Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) (Private) Limited and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) noted that the airline has not made any commitment to resume flights up
to now.

“They have not committed yet. But we believe they are planning on resuming flights soon. However, they will likely run into the existing issues of jet fuel shortage and fund repatriation issues,” a CAA official said.

In the first two months of 2022, Russia became the top source market for Sri Lanka’s tourism industry.
However, since then, Russian tourist arrivals have been on the decline, with the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war. Despite that, the direct flight between Moscow and Colombo continued to bring in a considerable number of Russian tourists to the island nation.

After Aeroflot suspended its operations to Colombo on June 2, Russian tourist arrivals fell to 1,610 in the month. Despite operating for mere two days a week, Aeroflot accounted for 14.9 percent of Russian tourist arrivals in June.

FlyDubai has emerged as the most popular airline among Russian tourists in the absence of Aeroflot, accounting for 35.2 percent of the Russian arrivals in the month.

Daily Mirror