{"id":86829,"date":"2019-03-30T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T01:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86829"},"modified":"2019-03-30T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T01:28:42","slug":"visas-on-arrival-and-visa-free-travel-now-possible-for-in-bound-tourists-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/30\/visas-on-arrival-and-visa-free-travel-now-possible-for-in-bound-tourists-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Visas-on-arrival and visa-free travel now possible for in-bound tourists-minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>March 29, 2019, 7:54 pm <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sarath310319.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sarath310319.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sarath310319-300x77.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>From left MD CDC Events &amp;\ntravels ( Pvt). Ltd.Imran Hassen, Harith Perera, Minister John Amaratunga,\nKishu Gomes, Chairman, Sancharaka Udawa 2019, Nishad Wijetunga Pic by Samana\nRanaweera<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Steve A.\nMorrell<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Visa \u2013 on \u2013\narrival and visa \u2013 free travel in Sri Lanka are now possible for all in-bound\ntourists, Minister of Tourism Development, Wildlife and Chistian Religious\nAffairs, John Amaratunga said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hurrah ,Finally politicians have\nunderstood the necessity . There are few other steps need to be taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Airport\nshould have fleet of metered taxis like in all other countries for tourists to\nhail as soon as they arrive<\/li><li>Regular Train\nservice to re commence from airport to Colombo with change over in Ragama to go\nto East and mid country <\/li><li>Regular\nbus service from Karutanayake to Colombo for back packers <\/li><li>Proper\neating places outside airport at a reasonable price<\/li><li>When super\nluxury passenger vessels &nbsp;arrive in\nColombo Harbour &nbsp;high quality terminal to\nbe built with dedicated walkway and entrance for them to go out from Port <\/li><li>At the\nexit of the main&nbsp; gate of the Colombo\nport Old Customs building to be converted for night life and pubs etc <\/li><li>Legalised\nCanabi smoking place to be established for tourists to enjoy in this building <\/li><li>Legalise\ncannabis in selected areas in Colombo (So much of drugs coming in with no\ncontrol)<\/li><li>Chatam\nStreel and Bristol street in Colombo to be a walking area with many eating\nstalls like in Thailand and Singapore <\/li><li>Russian\nand Thai lasses to be given special discounts to Come to Colombo and legalize\nthe oldest trade in the world <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera March 29, 2019, 7:54 pm From left MD CDC Events &amp; travels ( Pvt). Ltd.Imran Hassen, Harith Perera, Minister John Amaratunga, Kishu Gomes, Chairman, Sancharaka Udawa 2019, Nishad Wijetunga Pic by Samana Ranaweera By Steve A. Morrell Visa \u2013 on \u2013 arrival and visa \u2013 free travel in Sri Lanka are now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}