To promote Sri Lanka as a tourist destination by inviting sports teams from Germany to visit Sri Lanka is the aim of the Asian German Sports Exchange Programme.

Badminton, handball, table tennis, football and volleyball teams from Germany will be touring Sri Lanka on theinvitation of AGSEP early next year. Teams from leading German cities like Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, Bremen, Liepzig ad Magdeburg along with their supporters and family members will be visiting Sri Lanka early next year.

During their two week stay in the island the German teams will be playing three matches each against their Sri Lankan counterparts in Colombo, Kandy, Marawila and Galle and will also go on sightseeing tours to Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Sigiriya, Anuradhapura and Galle which would be a huge boost for the country’s tourist industry.

The aim of organising the sports tours is to bring about friendship and understanding between the players of the two countries and to promote Sri Lanka as a tourist destination among the sports-loving Germans.

Two students from the University of Passau, Germany, Karin Anthuber, a badminton player and Stefan Eggecs, a handball player are organising the tours on behalf of AGSEP.

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