Wednesday, October 24, 2007
 

Hard selling: The soothing and calm view of the Indian Ocean whilst holidaying in Sri Lanka is what the national carrier SriLankan Airlines is trying to tell the tourists and the world despite secuirity concerns. SriLankan Holidays, the leisure arm of national carrier, SriLankan Airlines, launched two new brochures yesterday . Here the cover of the inbound brochure titled “Tropical Palaces” while the other promoting outbound travel was titled “What will you bring back.”


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Tourism down but not out!

Tourism authorities attempted to play down Monday’s LTTE attack in Anuradhapura blaming it on “terrorism, which is a global phenomenon” despite the consistent negative impact the attack brought followed by several cancellations at leading hotels in the area.

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