Tag: Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka pushes for longer stays to prop up struggling tourism...
Sri Lanka has relaxed visa regulations and extended stay allowance from 30 days to between 180 and 270 days to boost the country’s sagging...
Airlines resort to ‘tankering’ to avoid fuel shortage in Sri Lanka
Airlines operating flights to Sri Lanka are now filling up their tanks for both ways, so as to avoid refuelling in the crisis-hit country.
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Worried tourists give Sri Lanka a wide berth
Advisories against travel to Sri Lanka and media coverage of the country's food and resource shortage and political unrest have frightened scores of travellers...
Sri Lanka to lift lockdown, ease restrictions for vaccinated visitors
Sri Lanka looks set to end a six-week nationwide lockdown on October 1, while at the same time easing border measures for fully vaccinated...
Sri Lanka Tourism returns to overseas trade show floors
Sri Lankan tourism officials will resume attending physical overseas trade exhibitions and fairs, kicking off with Moscow’s three-day International Trade Fair for Tourism and...
Sri Lanka placed on lockdown as Covid-19 cases spike
Sri Lanka has imposed a 10-day lockdown allowing only essential services to operate as authorities battle to contain a wave of Delta variant cases.
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Sri Lanka enforces night curfew to curb Covid-19 spike
Sri Lankan authorities have imposed an indefinite nationwide night curfew which will come into effect on Monday (August 16) night as the country faces...
Lockdown urged in Sri Lanka as Delta spike overwhelms hospitals
Calls from Sri Lankan healthcare personnel are growing louder by the day for the government to immediately impose a nationwide lockdown or curfews as...
Sri Lanka imposes travel restrictions amid Covid spike
Sri Lanka has imposed islandwide travel restrictions, similar to a curfew, for a 77-hour period, which started from 23.00 on Thursday (May 13), in...
Sri Lanka trade up in arms over new tourism act
Private tourism stakeholders have decried a proposal by the Sri Lankan government to scrap current laws governing tourism policy, a move which would weaken...