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Srilal Miththapala, senior tourism industry personality and regular contributor to eTurboNews from Sri Lanka, has been appointed to the Board of the Asian Eco-Tourism Network.
Srilal Miththapala, senior tourism industry personality and regular contributor to eTurboNews from Sri Lanka, has been appointed to the Board of the Asian Eco-Tourism Network, (AEN) with effect from January 1, 2019. He will initially function as a non- voting member on the board, for a period of 6 months, after which he will be appointed as full board member at the AGM in June 2019.
Srilal joins another Sri Lankan on the board, Hiran Cooray, Chairman of the Jet Wing group.
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Tourism players fear that visa fee and stringent health protocols may deter foreign visitors to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has set a reduced, but still, ambitious target of 800,000 foreign tourist arrivals for 2021, far below the earlier planned 2.5 million laid out a few years back, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to bite.
The revised target was set by the country’s Presidential Task Force for Tourism, according to an official at Sri Lanka’s Tourism Promotion Bureau.
Since reopening on January 21, Sri Lanka has received 5,048 foreign arrivals in January-February
The official, who declined to be named, said the authorities had pointed out to the Task Force that 800,000 is an “ambitious” target as based on current arrivals, the country looks set to receiving only up to 350,000 tourists this year, even with an expected surge during summer.
/ Posted on 3 February, 2021 14:02
A travel bubble arrangement being worked out between Sri Lankan and Indian authorities could soon pave the way for a steady flow of Indian visitors back to Sri Lanka.
A Sri Lankan Tourism official told
TTG Asia that once the plan has panned out, “there should be many visitors from India”, which is Sri Lanka’s largest tourist source market.
Sri Lanka tourism stakeholders banking on travel bubble with India, vaccine rollout to boost visitor numbers
He said that so far about 500 tourists, mostly from Western and Eastern Europe, have visited the country since it reopened for commercial traffic under a travel bubble on January 21, following a 10-month suspension.