Sri Lanka is one place where you could be in harmony with nature like in no other place. By spending your holiday in Sri Lanka you’ll get so much of entertainment.

Thanks a million. And the greeting Ayubowan, from its Sanskrit deravative means ‘May all living things on earth have long life’, not just you or I.

Please visit the website www.earthlung.travel for more on the initiatives little Sri Lanka is taking. Yes! transperency, accountability and integrity are virtues we hold. We need the likes of you to watch us all the time. All is not perfect and in a sub-optimal playfield, we do our best as every little drop counts in making the vast ocean. This week’s CNN story on the scientific evidence on climate change and that we are already too late and need to take drastic life style changes is the challenge human kind face. We may not be an Amazon but we are indeed a small green lung on the tip of the Indian sub-continent that can do our little bit to contribute and we do attempt to do that.

Let each of us whether travellers, visitors or just citizens of mother earth, do our bit and learn from each other and also look after each other.

Come visit us in Sri Lanka again and again without guilt and participate in contributing the little drops to the oceans of action before they can get heated up beyond redumption.

Happy guilt free travels to Sri Lanka….

Renton, this will be kept short as possible.

The Paradise Isle is in dire need of foreign investment and tourism to raise its revenue.

Your promises of Transparency in Sri Lanka Tourism are cherished.

The revamp of the Tourist Board, appointment of new staff and a new MD, plus awarding the advertising account to O&M, all welcome.

Lots of CESS to spend eh?

Yesterday I watched an interview on BBC News. One of the Deputy Mayors of London appointed to work on youth crime was questioned. He had but one answer, he was appointed by Boris Johnson, the new Mayor of London. And that whatever happened, he would not comment on anything. As Boris had hired him, all failure’s and success of London will be on Boris.

So as the Chairman, Sir, all successes or failures of Sri Lanka Tourism will be your responsibility.

And;

SOMEBODY’S WATCHING YOU. ALL OF US. DILIGENTLY.

So May 2008;

Dubai – 10,000 visitors.

UK – 100,000 visitors.

Year on year, we hope in 2009, these figure will at least grow to;

Dubai – 20,000

UK – 200,000

Not difficult to mobilise and achieve given all the new appointments of staff, new marketing budgets, opening offices in Dubai, and international advertising agency. Eh?

All the best!