COLOMBO — Sri Lanka saw the 150,000-tourist-arrival mark passed with over 47,000 arrivals in the first 20 days of December, Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said Thursday. According to official figures, Sri Lanka recorded a total of 47,120 tourists in the first 20 days of December, surpassing November’s arrival figures. Ranatunga said that in an effort … Read more
COLOMBO — The Sri Lankan government is all set to declare 2022 as the “Visit Sri Lanka Year” in line with the integrated five-year Global Communication Campaign (GCC), as its aims to attract 6 million tourists and 10 billion U.S. dollars in earnings by 2025 despite the challenges by the COVID-19 virus, local media reported … Read more
GENEVA: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has been given the mandate to gather and preserve information and evidence about Sri Lanka’s long civil war-related crimes. According to the report, the long civil war ended in 2009 with the defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. The group’s UK resolution was … Read more
