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Monday, November 01, 2010 - 6.53 GMT |
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Lanka among
safest destinations to fly – Ambassador
Ariyasinha |
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Sri Lanka is today one of the safest destinations in the world a tourist can expect to fly to, Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ravinatha Aryasinha said.
The Ambassador made this observation when he addressed passengers traveling to Sri Lanka on the maiden Brussels-Colombo direct flight, at a departure ceremony held on October 30 at the Brussels International Airport.
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 Jet Airfly 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 Sri Lanka, to on their return, share their experience with others, so that more will be encouraged to make the journey, which will strengthen the people-to-people bonds between Europe and Sri Lanka.
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