Sri Lanka has earned appreciation as a target worth touring to as tour operators remain to market the land amidst encounters and one such company is Lanka Travel & Tours centered in London.
The company’s MD Nissther Annis speaking to the Sri Lankan media during a latest visit to Colombo aroused his initial days in seeking to sell a terminus not so well known by the touring community in the UK.
He begun out in 1975 earning familiarity in the tourism trade at the time and consequently journeyed to the UK in 1978 from where he is even to date trading tour packs of diverse types while concurrently attempting to entice as much vacationers as possible to visit Sri Lanka.
Despite the uprising and other radical disruptions faced at that time, Mr. Annis said he would sell Sri Lanka by inviting holidaymakers in the UK to assist the country by going out there witnessing the stunning scenes and echoes of the island state.
Costs that begun out at 40 pounds have swelled to around 110 pounds now in Colombo .
As one of the first Air Ceylon former Air Lanka agents in the UK, Mr. Annis clarified that UK citizens had tiny expertise of Sri Lanka back then and would rather link us to Indians and Pakistanis and later to cricket. Mr. Annis has also been the first ever Sri Lankan to be chosen as agent for Qatar Airways and Royal Jordanian as well.
In 2008, Mr. Annis said they were able to sell a 3-day medical pack to British citizens but today he finds it hard to do so. The rates need to be modest enough to market such packets today, he said.
This package was offered in partnership with Apollo Hospitals primarily for complete check-ups which are said to the charge over 500 Pounds in the UK at the time would be costing only a fraction of it during a vacation in Sri Lanka. In addition, he had also recommended therapies for dental constraints that are too deemed costly in Europe.
Playing host to several representatives from famous Sri Lankan celebrities in the field of cricket and other prominent government officials, Mr. Annis has taken time to guarantee Sri Lankan makes its point on the UK people needing to travel out and discover.
He vies on rates with other tour operators as Mr. Annis has a clearer lead over the remainder of the participants in the trade in the UK due to his wide familiarity on the target destination..
Mr. Annis has been presenting actions together with the Institute of Travel and Tourism in the UK in a move to entice more interest from UK travel agents because of which he was able to guarantee more UK nationals will journey to Sri Lanka.
During this phase in enhancement to his many efforts to begin seminars related to travel in Sri Lanka, he was also engaged in playing host to the British Institute of Travel and Tourism of which he is a Fellow for its Annual Conference in Colombo.Today while he still underwrites to market Sri Lanka as a terminus to the many guests from UK Mr. Annis is also involved in goodwill work via the Al-Ihasan Trust of the UK.
Due to the existing economic catastrophe, the Trust helps orphans and widows supplying them with crisis aid in the form of, basic dry ration packs worth Rs.12 million for 1,000 packs to susceptible families, in several districts lately. In addition, he would be involved in helping those finding it hard to live with some in Colombo and several other needy families in Kinniya, Trincomalee, Puttalam, Batticaloa and Aluthgama.
