In an expect to help its travel industry, Sri Lanka is sans giving visas on entry to natives of 36 nations.
The Sri Lankan government will offer the advancement beginning May 1 to explorers from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea, as detailed by Khaleej Times.
Sri Lanka’s clergyman of the travel industry advancement, John Amaratunga, had said prior that Sri Lanka would like to stretch out the free visa plan to Chinese visitors and natives of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) nations — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Pakistan.
The plan will at first keep running for a half year however could proceed if the move altogether helps traveler numbers. It is intended to pull in voyagers to the island country amid its respite Yala rainstorm season which keeps running from May to August.
Sri Lanka’s tourism has boomed over the last decade with over 2.1 million tourists having visited in 2017 as compared to 448,000 in 2009, according to the nation’s Tourism Development Authority. The Sri Lankan government aims to double this figure by 2019.
