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Minister Prasanna Ranatunga today said the Tourism Ministry together with the Ministry of External Affairs was working on removing…

Emirates on Friday extended its suspension of flights from four countries — Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka — to Dub…

Sri Lanka Tourist Board has decided that tourists who have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will be allowed to freely t…

The validity period of all types of Visas currently obtained by foreigners in Sri Lanka has been extended up to August 8 from toda…

Health experts have warned that the new Delta Variant which is spreading across the country, after sporadic cases were found in re…

The Immigration and Emigration Department has decided to issue a limited number of passports in the one day and normal service whi…

The Excise Department has granted permission to facilitate the liquor sale in "Safe and Secure Level 1 Hotels" during the travel r…

Sri Lanka Tourism, recently announced their plans to develop a ‘city tourism’ strategy to position Colombo as a tourism hub in…

Sri Lanka would no longer be able to target tourists from the UK as a decision has been taken to place the island nation on the re…

Attorney General Dappula de Livera has issued fresh guidelines to the IGP for bail in respect of several offences in order to imme…

In an interview with Daily News Business he said that they are planning to open a tourism corridor between Russia and Colombo unde…

A number of flights from India landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) over the past few days amidst a ban on trave…

DFCC Bank, with the aim of being the most customer-centric and digitally-enabled bank in the years to come, recently partnered wit…

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has directed airlines that passengers travelling from India will not be permitted to disembark …

Sustaining the global spotlight on Sri Lanka as a ‘safe and secure’ holiday destination that has successfully opened up to the…

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has declared a special half day bank holiday for tomorrow (April 30) due to in lieu of May Day which…

The Ministry of Tourism will invest over Rs. 519 million for tourism development projects this year. The need for engaging in work…

Seventy-eight tourists who arrived in Sri Lanka had been found to be infected with the coronavirus since December, the Tourism Min…

The “Visiting Travel Blogger and Journalist Programme” is an annual project which Sri Lanka Tourism hosts in order to diversif…

An international racket to smuggle in 17 kilos of gold biscuits worth over Rs.220 million, was busted by the Customs at the Bandar…

An Opposition political grouping has accused the SLPP government of planning to deprive civic rights of several members of parli…

A former Diyawanna member, a chief provincial purohita and a provincial governing one, this politico failed to make it to Diyawann…

Central Crusaders led by Buwaneka Goonathilake turned tables on favourites Southern Stars in the final to clinch the inaugural Li …

In fact, a military alliance between the US and Sri Lanka already exists. By signing ACSA in 2007, and renewing it in 2017, Sri La…

Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga will present to the Cabinet the case for re-opening the Sri Lankan borders as early as possib…