{"id":1476,"date":"2009-10-14T13:59:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T10:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:59:54","slug":"sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Major influx of Middle East tourists to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sri_lanka.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1477\" title=\"Sri Lanka\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sri_lanka-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lanka\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Destination Sri Lanka reported a major influx of Arab travellers as Middle East Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka surged by 41% in the first nine months of 2009 over the same period last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Announcing the results, Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau&#8217;s Middle East Office confirmed that the strongest growth was registered from the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other markets that were a major source of tourists to Sri Lanka during the nine month period included France, Finland, Norway, Japan Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, India, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With peace finally prevailing after almost three decades of strife, we are confident that these results will be sustained through till the end of 2009 and beyond,&#8221; remarked SLTPB Middle East Director, Heba Al Ghais Al Mansoori.<\/p>\n<p>Post-conflict Sri Lanka is proving to be a magnet for regional travellers and the Eid-break saw a surge in travel to the island nation which is only three and a half hours flying time away.<\/p>\n<p>Cultural attractions, entertainment, shopping, and dining are some of the factors that draw modern day Arab travelers to their preferred destinations and Sri Lanka offers a good product that scores on all counts and is less than four hours flying time away from the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Factors such as the government&#8217;s support for the tourism sector, and expansion of low-cost carrier services are also contributing to the growth of the tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka offers diversity within easy reach in a small island. Among the many soubriquets showered upon this tiny island include Serendipity, Ceylon, Teardrop of India, Resplendent Isle, Island of Dharma and Pearl of the Indian Ocean to name a few and none comes even close to articulate the true beauty and old world charm of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destination Sri Lanka reported a major influx of Arab travellers as Middle East Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka surged by 41% in the first nine months of 2009 over the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7997,137,3],"tags":[7893],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-far-east","category-sectoral","category-shopping","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8553,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/8553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}