Lonely Planet nominates
Sri Lanka as the number one destination in the world to travel in 2013, lauding the island nation’s heritage sites, exciting wildlife,
lush landscapes, pristine beaches, unique cultural festivals & scrumptious
food.
Sri Lanka, a country with a
recorded rich history of more than 2500 years has many heritage sites and has
colonial historical architecture everywhere in the country since The Portuguese
and Dutch once waged proxy wars here & by 1802 the island was a British
colony.
It notes the successful conclusion
of the most recent 30 years conflict, which eventually ended winning peace for
the nation, has open doors for a greater economic development.
Soon
after the conflict ended Sri Lankan tourism has grown impressively, with a growth of 46% in 2010 followed by further
growth of 30% in 2011, 17.5 % in 2012 the growing trend is keep going up with
16.8 % up to October 2013.
With those increases, the Sri Lanka
Tourism Development Authority has outlined a plan to reach a 45,000 hotel room
capacity by 2016, when the total number of annual tourists is expected to reach
2.5 million. Special focus & effects are been put out to enhance the
service quality
Recently top hotel chains such as
Sheraton, Marriott & Shangri La have announced plans for new investments in
Sri Lanka. Currently approximately 2000 rooms have been shut for heavy
refurbishments & renovations.
The virgin beaches of east cost of
Sri Lanka are now blessed with quite a few developments of hotels reaching out
to approximately 1000 rooms.
Sri Lanka offers visitors a
wide variety of unique venues, from broad white beaches to mountain vistas,
wildlife parks teaming with elephants, leopards and more, rolling tea
plantations, spas, adventure tourism, surfing and ancient UNESCO World Heritage
Sites.
With a trend setting for increase in tourism, Sri Lanka has received a number of favorable
travel reviews since 2010, Number of world renounced papers & magazines
have rated Sri Lanka to be a promising tourist destination with New York times
ranking as the number one place to visit in 2010. National Geographic Traveler
magazine has identified Sri
Lanka among its top six destinations for world travelers in 2012.
Thanks You !
... Happiness will never come to those who don't appreciate what they already have ...
By Dhanushka Wijeyekoon – Assistant
Marketing Manager
NKAR Travels & Tours (Pvt) Ltd
Sri Lanka
NKAR Travels & Tours (Pvt) Ltd
Sri Lanka
