More US travellers visiting Sri Lanka
Stability is really important for tourism to re-bounce from the pandemic and economic crisis.
Sri Lanka is seeing a vast number of US travellers visiting the country, with the slow recovery in the economy. The world’s largest adventure travel company, Intrepid, Managing Director for North America, Matt Berna made this comment to the Business Times on the sidelines of a media briefing held at the BMICH in Colombo on Tuesday.
Mr. Berna said, “Australia has always been a biggest resource market for Sri Lanka. My responsibility is to look into the North American market. We see more and more US customers coming to Sri Lanka mainly because of the mix of culture, food, friendly environment, active trips, hiking, walking, cycling and more importantly safety.” A lot of Australians and Russians are visiting Sri Lanka while there is so much growth in the US market.
He stressed that one of the development areas Intrepid would work on is boosting the domestic market. “We want to welcome Sri Lankan travellers to visit foreign countries. We have nearly reached the pre-pandemic levels of inbound tourism in Sri Lanka, but now our focus is on the outbound segment. A lot of this is because Sri Lanka has always been on the top of the list of travel destinations for travellers.” Obtaining a visit visa to Sri Lanka is easy with clear instructions, convenient, almost instant and affordable, noted Mr. Berna.
Intrepid offers 12 different tours in Sri Lanka and it’s all over the country. An average tour in Sri Lanka takes 10-12 days, if not it starts from 7-8 days up to three weeks.
He also pointed out that US is the fastest growing region for Intrepid and more Americans are now travelling. “In Australia we had our first office 30 years ago, in UK 20 years ago and in the US 15 years ago. We have the biggest opportunity in the US and the largest travel market places in the world. However only a very small percentage of the population has passports in the US. Only 20 per cent of people in the US have passports and a lot of them are for business travel purposes.”
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