Colombo, April 7 (Daily Mirror) – The UK Travel Advice for Sri Lanka has been updated on 5 April 2024. The Travel Advice has been updated with additional information on emergency medical numbers, the road trip and safety and security on “Entry Requirements”. ‘, ‘Safety and security’, and the ‘Health’ pages.
References to shortages of food, fuel and medicine due to the economic situation in Sri Lanka contained in the previous Advice have been removed from the updated Travel Advice. In addition, references to limitations in health care services, such as the shortage of imported medicine, and medical equipment due to the economic situation have also been removed. The High Commission of Sri Lanka in London has made repeated representations to the UK authorities on the need to remove these adverse references in the previous Travel Notice to reflect the ground reality.
The updated travel advisory will be a further boost to Sri Lanka’s tourism industry which has recorded more than 600,000 arrivals in the first three months of 2024. The United Kingdom is the third largest source of tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka with 53,928 arrivals between January 1 and March 27, 2024.
