Sri Lanka one of the safest destinations a tourist can expect to fly to
November 1, 2010 01:24 am
The Ambassador who noted that “tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka from Belgium had increased by 82.8% up to September this year, said this compared well with the 50% increase recorded from Europe, and the 44% recorded from around the world, in the same period”.
Commending Jetairfly and Thomas Cook for being one of the first European collaborations to re-commence direct flights to Sri Lanka, he said it will be a huge boost to the marketing of the destination not only in Belgium, but also in the entire BENELUX region (Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg) and would result in an exponential growth in tourists to Sri Lanka from these countries.
He urged the visitors to
The Ambassador later joined Mr. Jos Stroobants, Director/Brussels
Airport, Mr. Elie Bruyninckx Chairman Jetairfly and Mr. Marc Van de Wal,
Director, Thomas Cook