Dream Vacations Travel Blog - Sri Lanka Tours & Hotels

Subsequent to the successful tourism promotions in France and The Netherlands, Sri Lanka Tourism had further good news in the German and The UK markets. The travel advisory in Germany was reviewed by the authorities. The earlier advice against travelling to Sri Lanka if not essential has been deleted from the text of the German travel advisory. According to Channa Jayasinghe, the Director of the Tourist Board Office in Germany, this would definitely be most encouraging to the tour operators and travel agents selling Sri Lanka, as the earlier advisory led to confusion and was negatively interpreted by the public. After the FCO’s meeting in the UK, the Sri Lanka Tourist Board’s concerns were shared through the Pacific Asia Travel Association’s (PATA) UK Chapter, Association of National Tourist Office Representatives (ANTOR) and Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The FCO has further softened their travel advisory to Sri Lanka. The advisory has been reviewed and reissued with an amendment to the Summary and local travel section, where it now states we no longer advice against travel to the city of Anuradhupura, said Jean-Marc Flambert, Director UK & Ireland of the Tourist Board.