10/02/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Sri Lankan government delays implementation of online visas till next year to address all concerns (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
09/30/2011
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Lanka Business Online
Sept 30, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's electronic tourist travel approval system will be effective from January 01, 2012 with a trial run starting from Saturday, October 01, officials said.
09/28/2011
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Daily Mirror
On Wednesday, Sri Lanka’s Immigration and Emigration department announced that an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) system that will replace the simple visa-on-arrival facility for travellers from 78 countries. The visa-on-arrival will continue for people travelling from The Maldives and Singapore — two countries that reciprocate the facility for Sri Lankans travelling to these countries.
09/28/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka introduces prior visa approval online, scraps on arrival system (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
09/06/2011
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Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals jumped 29.6 percent in August from a year earlier with the visitors expect to hit a record high, as the island nation kept attracting more visitors and
05/08/2011
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The Sunday Leader
Its been two years since the war came to an end. Soon after, exultant southerners began visiting Jaffna in busloads and van loads to ‘see it with their own eyes’ and to celebrate the end of the protracted war. To most, Jaffna is like a war memorial, a once exotic place that remained the theatre of war and hence inaccessible. Two years and the travel urge is still strong.
03/14/2011
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BBC
The Sri Lankan army opens a travel agency 'to help the general public buy air tickets' and foreign package tours.
03/12/2011
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The Guardian (UK)
After 30 war-torn years, northern Sri Lanka is opening up to tourism. But is it too soon? Kevin Rushby is among the first travellers to venture to its friendly villages and unspoilt beaches
03/01/2011
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news.lk
Sri Lanka's participation at the North America's premier travel event "The New York Times Travel Show" held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Centre in New York City from February 25-27 has attracted the attention of the participants very much
02/12/2011
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Daily Mirror
Tourists from the south of the country are thronging Jaffna’s Valvettithurai government hospital to catch a glimpse of Vellupillai Prabhakaran’s ailing 81-year-old mother, V Parvathi Pillai, who is undergoing treatment at the hospital, the Hindustan Times (HT) reported.