SLTDA Announced Tourists Could Resume Their Travel Plans to Kandy …..

The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) announced that tourists could resume their travel plans to Kandy as the situation in the administrative district had improved and the area was fast returning to normalcy.

“No violent incident has been reported from the district in the last 18 hours. Accordingly, the curfew has been lifted by the Police and tourists can resume their travel plans to Kandy,” stated an SLTDA update on its website (www.sltda.lk/emergency).

 The tourism authorities and industry stakeholders implemented a mechanism with the local Police authorities to facilitate the issuance of passes for tourists, who choose to move out of the Kandy administrative district from Wednesday.