Sri Lanka No.2 in World's Twenty Best Tourist Destinations - National Geographic Channel 2010

[NoEalamInSL]

Dec 22 (LBO) SriLankan Airlines resumes flying to Zurich. SriLankan Airlines began flying to the Swiss city of Zurich Thursday, the latest destination in the national carrier's expanding global route network. The service will initially be twice-weekly on Monday and Friday and would be increased in the future. The Zurich-Colombo flight will operate via Male in the Maldive Islands, another highly popular tourist destination where SriLankan Airlines has traditionally been the largest airline,

[femmefatale991]

I'm so so proud of Sri Lanka. Definitely belongs in this list!

[NoEalamInSL]

@Bigboi5273, I think I must accept and respect your level of comprehension. We all are not equally blessed with same degree of intelligence. 'Lies Agreed Upon' is a documentary made by Sri Lankan Government to counter Channel-4 allegations in 'Sri Lanka's Killing Fields'. It is shocking to see how UN officials as guardians of democracy and human rights worked hand-in-hand with terrorists to abuse civilians and to lie to the world. If you so worried abt SL, watch and give your views.

[NoEalamInSL]

@Bigboi5273, you typed 'best destinations, Sri Lanka popped up? That'S COOL! Sri Lanka is the best tourist destination. Tourism is booming, new airports, harbours, railways.. in short once you got their you feel the breath taking Sri Lankan hospiality. Many friends of mine in Europe have been to Sri Lanka. Hurry up, its just 500 euros a week HB, RO. google & see. Thanks for sharing your views on Channel4's 'Sri Lanka's killing Fields', you must watch 'Lies Agreed Upon' OMG its pletora of lies!

[rockinchick2119]

@yankee32323232 Stop making up foolish lies , I can tell that your a full tamil.( LOSER ). Tamil people are just so good at making up lies and Im guessing its one of the traits that they inherited from their ancestors. LOL.. For your infomation , Srilanka is a much beautiful and a safer place to go visit now that there's no pathetic terrorist of your kind dirtying up the nation!!!!

[NoEalamInSL]

May 15 (SL)Tiger Woods to visit Sri Lanka. Golfing legend Tiger Woods is expected in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, May 17 at the Royal Colombo Golf Club. The club will be hosting him with the event being open only to a select few. Tickets to the black tie event have been priced at Rs. 112,000 each (US $1,000). The Royal Colombo Golf Club said Woods is expected to remain in the country for just one day and would attend a black tie event at the club on the evening of May 17...

[NoEalamInSL]

Dec 10 (DN) Direct flights between Lanka, Switzerland soon.

Swiss Ambassador Thomas Litscher said he would work towards establishing a direct airline connection between Sri Lanka and Switzerland. Litscher who called on Prime Minister D M Jayaratne at Visumpaya Tuesday, said over 10,000 Swiss tourists arrived in Sri Lanka last year.

Latest destination for adventure cruise company Zegrahm: Sri Lanka.

Looking for an off-the-beaten-path cruise destination in 2011? Zegrahm Expeditions

[NoEalamInSL]

@Luxman4u, Do you call killing terrorists as genocie. half of Tamil population ( Tamils 12% of total population) live Sinhalese in South. How many Sinhalese live in North, Sinhalese were ethnicaly clenased in North and east. Can you deny that? Searh LTTE attrocities you will find out ow many massacres done by LTTE against Sinhalese. UK, USA, EU tried to save LTTE to drill oil wells in Sri Lanka, didnt succeed. Now Sri Lanka free of terror and ecnomicaly booming.

[roarfunky]

@Luxman4u - i live in srilanka, i live with my tamil friends not only them muslim friends also. we have church, temples, tamil temples. mosques in front of each but we dont have a problem infact we share(we go to each other to share the culture and religion). you got your word wrong, type the word "genoside" and google it you must find the meaning of the word which adds value to you next comments world in harmony will forgive you for your comment this time. have a nice day without hatred.

[NoEalamInSL]

Sri Lanka gets cruise ship calls after war

Nov 16 (LBO) A luxury passenger vessel, MV Le Diamant, operated by the CMA CGM shipping line, has begun calls at Sri Lankan ports following the end of the island's 30-year ethnic war. The Sri Lanka Ports Authority said the ship called at the eastern port of Trincomalee on November 14, the first time in 30 years the harbor has got a cruise call. The vessel also called at the ports of Galle on the south coast and Colombo, on the west coast

[barbs19788]

marco pole went to sri lanka?

[malitha70]

@yankee32323232 oyiii psychotic fool who talked of a woman you idiot i was proud of the video uploaded n just commented what the fff is wrong with you freaking fools.... man get a life assH.....

[razorhp]

@yankee32323232 yeah being half on every thing and not having a country to die for..yeah you shouldn't feel proud at all. its seems your a really immature and have no knowledge about the terrorism we had in SL. US lost 10 000 people we lost more than 100 000 people. isnt it a reason to worry about? it seems i'm just waisting my time here..think whatever you like, do whatever u want, we don't care!!! we have done fighting and we are moving on FAST!!

[razorhp]

@yankee32323232 grim and dark is and overstatement when compared to whats happening in some African countries. At least in Sri Lanka it happened 20 years ago. many of the developed/developing countries had gone through a smiler phase in there history so its not just SL. if you want to live in the past, I don't care, we are moving on.

[razorhp]

@yankee32323232 they were our people too. they had to die because they killed innocent people, government waited nearly 2 years before staring the final war but they never stopped killing people.. can you REMEMBER that? there were many forced recruits in LTTE who were forced to go to the battlefield and die for nothing.. i feel very sad about them. but people survived are already getting the real benefits of peace. regarding hospital bombing, it never happened.. BBC is pro- LTTE & u know that

[malitha70]

@yankee32323232 i guess you need to get your english right... i said im proud to be srilanka... i know you guys go all around the world and then fight for a seperate country which you will never get.... get a life.. try to live in a mix society rather than being pushed around like slaves.... and for the reason of the war where innocent ppl suffered go ask your dead leader prabhakaran...

[razorhp]

@yankee32323232 well i know it was grim and dark .if you say Tamils were brutally murdered before 20 years,same thing happned to Sinhales ppl in last four years. people suffered.lifes wasted. it was a madness and it had be stopped. current government did a big favor for people living in north and east.they don't fear death anymore(neither do we).past is past but we all learned a lesson (in the hard way)so lets move on. have a visit to your country and see how things have changed.its haven again.

[razorhp]

no matter which part of the world you come from, how rich or poor you are or what your likes and dislikes are , sure you'll enjoy your stay at this magical island.. you'll be amazed by the diversity she offers being such a small island..

[sarkar9832]

omg. Miami and bhamas are far better than srilanka.

[sarkar9832]

omg. Miami and bhamas are far better than srilanka.

[rade2rising]

Proud to be a Sri lankan ! :) SL is the best !

[malitha70]

i'm proud to be a Srilankan..... =)

[nowhereprincess]

i'll go to sri lanka, definitily!

[TheDJ1LOVE]

omg. Don't risk ur life and go there. I visited last month, i got my wallet stolen and ppl who work in the hotel stole it. It is full of thiefs. It is not safe to go there, u won't feel safe or have peace of mind. Every where you see people and police with big ass guns. People are very rude not friendly at all, this is not a place you want to take your family or spend ur holiday in.

[lion4tiger]

@TheDJ1LOVE you are a LTTE terrorist...lolz...and ppl know it by ur comments!!!!!!! :-)..ha ha...so rest in peace brotha

[razorhp]

@TheDJ1LOVE mther fkers like the one who made the above comment are just a bunch of losers that supported a terrorist group called LTTE. it was completely defeated so these people now have become a thing of past..these people are country-less and they live in many parts of the world except in sri lanka .. sri lanka is one of the safest countries in the world and people don't steal like in don't trust me on what I say about my country , just go to an independent travel review site and see.

[bofhd89o]

i visited sri lanka after my friends insisted to,because i had that bad image about it like poverty, destroyed cuz of tsunami and not well known destination..but after i visited it,i was blown away..it is soo beautiful =)

[NoEalamInSL]

@bofhd89o Thats nice to hear. I heard many of those stories from friends of mine too.. They know Sri Lanka as Ceylon. Ceylon tea. a must visi in life time. so many geograhical changes within short distance. can you imagine from hot-humid 30-35c golden sandy beaches to 12-16c cold central hills (beautiful lanscape with cascading waterfalls) take only 3hr (150km) travel, other countries have to wait 3months or travel 100omiles. must vist with some of my friends next month:-)

[NoEalamInSL]

Batticaloa to get a hotel with 150 rooms

Aug 5 (N360) Pasikudha in the eastern province which was a popular tourist destination before the conflict broke out in 1983 is expected to get a boom with the entry of a Maldives hotel developer who is planning to build up a tourism resort. Maldives Blue Continent will establish a US $ 6 million worth tourism resort including a hotel of 150 rooms.The resort which is coming up in a land area of 15 acres is expected to be operational by 2011

[NoEalamInSL]

Tourism in Sri Lanka receives a boost in Belgium

July 26 (IL) Jetair, one of the leading tour operators in Belgium, has introduced Sri Lanka as a new winter destination, and will operate weekly charter flights from Brussels to Colombo commencing October 2010. The formal announcement was made at this year's 'Jetair Fly summer road show 2010' held last week at the Event Lounge - Brussels 600+ travel agents. more Belgian travelers will choose Sri Lanka, a novel experience to their life

[NoEalamInSL]

"while overall tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka grew by 48% in the first six months of 2010 over the corresponding period the previous year, arrivals from Belgium was almost 60%". Noting that "despite the absence of a direct flight connecting the capitals, Belgium has been a country which sent visitors who have grown fond of Sri Lanka, who travelled there several times and were largely high spending"

[NoEalamInSL]

Ambassador said "the decision taken by Jet Air to commence direct charter flights to Sri Lanka is not only a huge boost to the marketing of the destination in the BENELUX region, but will also add fillip to the numbers that will be able to visit the island". He called upon travel agents to promote Sri Lanka with vigor, and assured that Sri Lanka will match this enthusiasm by ensuring that it maintains quality and that guests return as satisfied customers.

[NoEalamInSL]

Ambassador emphasized that Sri Lanka was re-branding itself in a more strategic manner as an 'exclusive location' and as a 'family destination', said the time was ripe to convert the awareness generated, into tangible increase in tourist traffic to Sri Lanka. The tour operators who attended the brain-storming said with peace returning to the island, they saw great potential in making Sri Lanka a "most preferred" destination among Belgian travelers.

[NoEalamInSL]

Two Sri Lanka beaches make top grade: Forbes

July 22 (LBO) A beach stretch from Tangalle Bay to Weligama in Sri Lanka's south and Bentota in the southwest have been named among the top 10 in Asia by Forbes, a business magazine. The beaches were judged by a panel which included Graham Uden, a photographer based in Hong Kong and John Borthwick, a Sydney-based travel writer and photographer. "Sri Lanka has beautiful beaches on its southwest coast, from

[trevelyan1975]

Congrats from - SRILANKANHIRES - providers of low cost car hires in Srilanka.

[NoEalamInSL]

No.2 exotic Sri Lanka!

[THALAVARVIDS]

Promoting tourism for sri lanka is now bad, since the genocide of tamil civilan by the government and its military, keeping tamil civilian lockedup behind barbed wire in disguisting conditions ie. lack of shelter, lack of toilet facilities, throwing food at civilans.

Sri lanka has the hisghest rate of missing persons any where in the world today! i do not know how these women can promote tourism in sri lanka at this time. DON'T GO THERE!

[roarfunky]

@THALAVARVIDS i know you are a lier since i live in sri lanka with tamil brothers, war is finished now and liers like u dont have influence on world community since they know about srilanka and jealous people like you, lie dont have a life or survival it's only temporary.

[Bextar2]

Its the pearl of the indian ocean!

so proud to be a part of it :D

[donchichioni]

@Bextar2 nah man zanzibar is pearl!

[Bextar2]

@donchichioni what!

no offence but sri lanka is officially

called the pearl of the indian ocean for along time!

its the number 2 best destination in the world

said so in discovery channel, your countrey might be a "pearl" if u want it to

but sri lanka is well known for being the pearl of the indian ocean, you cant change that!

[jumahashim]

@donchichioni totaly agree!!

[sbextremism]

What do we going to do with racist Buddhist monks? Who is destroying this beautiful Island.

[lahirugl]

It is My vedio that you have posted again....:) "Worlds Best Islands"