Aitken Spence Travels handles over 100,000 visitors

Aitken Spence Travels handled over 100,000 visitors to Sri Lanka in the financial year 2014-2015. This is a significant milestone in the company's 38-year history.

"We have continued to grow our business year-on-year and we are delighted with our results," said Managing Director, Aitken Spence Travels, Nalin Jayasundera.

"We have shown significant capacity to adjust to the changing market conditions and fuel growth in spite of the lingering economic and geopolitical challenges. With these results, we are confident we will continue to have a major impact on the tourism sector," he said. Aitken Spence Travels continues to be among the highest contributors to the Government's Tourism Development Levy, he added.

Aitken Spence Travels is a significant contributor to its partner hotels, providing 248,000 room nights annually, being the biggest supplier of inventory to the Hotels sector.

This achievement is another feather in the cap of achievements which includes Aitken Spence Travels being awarded the Presidential award on three consecutive years and being inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Aitken Spence was the winner of the Presidential award for best Professional Conference Organiser (PCO) in Sri Lanka for three consecutive years and entered the Hall of Fame and was winner of the Sri Lanka Tourism Award for Professional Conference Organiser.

The company was also the proud recipient of the PATA gold award in 2014 under the Environment - Ecotourism Project category for an innovative excursion program developed with Elpitiya plantations.

Aitken Spence Travels is fully diversified into every aspect of tourism related activities, leisure, eco, adventure, MICE, shore excursions for cruise liners and luxury.

Jayasundera said, "I thank our staff and the management team for their commitment, dedication and hard work in serving more than 100,000 clients.

The creative culture encouraged at Aitken Spence has enabled our staff to be innovative in creating tours to the ever demanding needs of the modern traveller and taking risks in exploring new markets while being responsible in their efforts.""We will continue to shape the tourism industry, by pioneering in terms of innovation of products and exploring markets, quality of services offered and exceeding customer expectations," Jayasundera said.

"I thank our tour operator partners for the continued trust and confidence in us by promoting Sri Lanka as a destination.

The support of our Hotel partners, Airline partners, other suppliers and Sri Lanka Tourism need to be acknowledged for helping us reach this milestone," he said.