Sri Lanka listed among Best Places to Go in Asia in 2024 by Conde Nast Traveler
Daily FT: Sri Lanka is among 11 best places to visit in Asia in 2024 according to the influential Conde Nast Traveler (CNTraveler).
“From Sri Lanka’s shores to Uzbekistan’s Silk Road, Asia offers reasons galore to pack your bags and head east,” said CNTraveler editors in a posting on its website.
CNTraveler said, “It’s official, Asia is back — brighter, bolder, and more ambitious than ever. The region took longer than others to shake off pandemic-related travel restrictions and border closures, but has returned in full force, eager to remind international travelers what they’ve been missing.”
The continent’s titanic expanse of territories has always offered a diverse tapestry of to-dos — but across the region, new experiences, events, and accommodation options await. Sri Lanka is emerging phoenix-like from economic crisis and responding with a new food festival, wellness-oriented retreats, and a hiking trail that snakes through 186 miles of hill country and centuries of history. Mongolia is relaxing visa restrictions to give more people the opportunity to experience its vast, rugged landscapes, and Kochi is setting the bar high when it comes to city-wide sustainability initiatives. In the UAE, a lesser-known emirate is vying for attention, while a Japanese port city is flexing its design muscles.
Expanded green spaces, intriguing boutique resorts, luxury sleeper trains, and the ancient Silk Road: our list of the 11 best places to visit in Asia in 2024, entirely informed by contributing writers and editors spread across the region, is packed with reasons to head east.
OSL take:
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the country and has shown great resilience and revival after facing multiple challenges since the global pandemic. The steady growth in tourist arrivals to the country indicate an overall expansion in the country’s economy while opening up a host of new business/investment opportunities in the tourism industry, especially in the leisure and hospitality sectors. The promotional campaigns carried out by local authorities in key tourist source markets while exploring new tourism concepts and the identification of Sri Lanka as a must visit tourist destination by international media indicates the growth and business potential in Sri Lanka’s tourism industry. It is this growth potential that has attracted many international leisure and hospitality brands into Sri Lanka. Apart from the leisure and hospitality sectors, there’s also a growing demand for the further development of infrastructure and supplementary infrastructure facilities required by the tourism industry to meet the growing demand. Foreign businesses/investors could therefore confidently explore the expanding opportunities in Sri Lanka’s tourism industry.
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