Sri Lanka attracts high-end French tourist group
View(s):The growing demand from incentive travellers in the MICE tourism segment had increased quite sharply over the past few years, a media release issued by Sri Lanka Tourism stated in the wake of a group of French incentive travellers that visited in March.
One of Sri Lanka’s leading travel agents Connaisance De Ceylon received a group of 130 pax incentive group from Toulouse – France on 26th March which is the latest addition to the group incentive travellers visiting the country.
This comes in the wake of the “Wonder of Asia” promotional campaign initiated by Ministry of Economic Development and Sri Lanka Tourism in Europe and Sri Lankan Travel agents have been receiving many upmarket incentive groups to Sri Lanka during the recent past, it was stated.
The group consisted of high end tourists from France representing different segments and mainly looking for investment opportunities in Sri Lanka, the release said.
Due to the new infrastructure developments in the country especially in the areas of domestic air travel, the group took flight using MI 17 helicopters of Heli Tours. In this respect, a fleet of six helicopters carried the incentive group for sightseeing tour from Kandy to down south. The Helitours Pvt Ltd unveiled its newest fleet of helicopters recently which are highly sophisticated for tourist travel, the release stated. The group was said to be impressed with the novel experience of having the opportunity to take a bird’s eye view of Sri Lanka’s luscious greenery and landscape from skies above.
They were in full of praise on the latest developments taken place in Sri Lanka for high end tourist travellers such as what they experienced travelling by helicopters, the release said.