Emirates choses Sri Lanka for exclusive UK tours catalogue

Sri Lanka has been featured as one of 14 popular destinations in an exclusive luxury holidays brochure produced by Emirates for the airline’s customers in the United Kingdom.

Produced by Emirates Tours UK, the tour operating arm of the airline in the UK, the glossy catalogue titled 2010 exceptional devotes eight pages to Sri Lanka, describing the island as a land bursting with colour, energy and history.

The section provides a description of Sri Lanka’s many attractions, historic sites, cultural heritage, wildlife, hill country and beaches, and features 10 hotel properties in the Cultural Triangle, the hill country and the western and southern coasts. It offers a wide choice of customised tour packages as an eight-day tour labelled Essential Sri Lanka and a 15-day tour titled Sri Lanka in Style.

Emirates Area Manager for Sri Lanka and the Maldives Chandana de Silva, said. The latest Emirates Tours UK catalogue is a perfect example of how Emirates promotes travel to Sri Lanka among high-end travellers, and is a representation of the continuing commitment of the airline to this destination.

He said that Emirates has operated services to Sri Lanka since April 1986 and now connects Colombo to the airline’s global network of 101 destinations with 26 flights a week. The other destinations in the UK catalogue are Dubai, Oman, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, India, China, Australia and New Zealand.

Besides the eight-page section in the Emirates Tours UK catalogue, Sri Lanka is also featured prominently in the Emirates Holidays World of Choice global catalogue for 2009-10, with another eight-page section.

Sri Lanka is the first of 120 destinations featured in the 455-page publication, which is available at Emirates sales offices around the world.

The winner of over 400 international awards, Emirates will launch services to Tokyo, Amsterdam, Prague, Madrid and Dhaka in 2010, taking its network to 106 destinations.

Pages from the Sri Lanka section in the Emirates Tours UK catalogue Important step - Executive Vice President, Emirates’ Engineering and Operations (holding the football with both hands) Adel Al Redha, joins members of Emirates’ sponsored HSV football team during the handover of Airbus’ 6000th aircraft in Hamburg, Germany. The plane becomes the airline’s eighth double-decker.