Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Sri Lanka Khalid Hamoud Al-Kahtani mentioned there may be nice potential for Bilateral Tourism between Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka.

He informed a gaggle of journalists that the typical variety of Saudi vacationers to Sri Lanka yearly lately has reached almost 32,000.

Alternatively, the typical variety of visas issued by the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Colombo to Sri Lankan nationals over the previous few years for numerous functions reached a mean of round 55,000 visas.

In the meantime, the typical variety of Sri Lankan Umrah pilgrims earlier than the Corona pandemic reached 32,000, whereas the typical variety of Sri Lankan Hajj pilgrims reached 2,600.

The Saudi Arabian Ambassador mentioned measures on additional growing the move of vacationers between the 2 international locations had been mentioned by the embassy officers and different key Saudi Arabian officers together with buyers visiting Sri Lanka with Minister of Overseas Affairs Ali Sabry and different Sri Lankan stakeholders in current instances.

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a number of excellent pure parts that make it a first-class vacationer nation, due to its pure coasts and islands which might be distinguished by the splendour and purity of its waters, and its picturesque coral reefs, in addition to archaeological websites registered in UNESCO, new cities, archaeological surveys, and public parks”.

The Kingdom has additionally not too long ago been distinguished by seaside and leisure tourism, festivals and exhibitions tourism, archaeological tourism, purchasing and museums, because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has grow to be a future vacationer vacation spot for worldwide travellers”.

“In the meantime, Sri Lanka is characterised by an historic historic civilization, and is legendary for its manufacturing of spices particularly cinnamon, treasured stones and jewels of worldwide worth for 1000’s of years. Geographically, Sri Lanka is the hyperlink between the East and the West, with the so-called Silk Street. Sri Lanka is characterised by many vacationer points of interest, a very powerful of that are its prolonged seashores and locations devoted to varied sports activities, adventures, festivals and wildlife practices. The Saudi travellers acquire entry visas to Sri Lanka upon their arrival on the airport, they usually also can acquire digital visas”, the Ambassador mentioned.

Sri Lankan vacationers can acquire visas by way of the Kingdom’s mission in Colombo by accessing the hyperlink https://visa.mofa.gov.sa, additionally, these Sri Lankans who’re holding go to visas of United Kingdom, United States, or the European union international locations (Schengen), can acquire digital visas, offered that the visa was used at the least as soon as and bears the entry stamp from the issuing nation.

In addition to Sri Lankans who maintain everlasting residency in the US of America, the UK, and European international locations, can acquire digital visas or on their arrival to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They will apply by way of the web site: https://visa.visitsaudi.com to acquire visas.