Travel Guide - SAARC

After a continuous growth in the tourism market, the Nepali government is planning ways to ride the surging wave to build a sustainable tourist market. The goal is to mark the year 2011 as the ‘Visit Nepal Year’ drawing at least a million visitors that year. Already many sites in rural Nepal is underway [...]

A team of Bhutanese delegates from the chamber of commerce is in Dhaka to encourage foreign investment in Bhutan.Bangladesh and bhutan has been engaged in commerce for centuries but the volume has so far been conservative. Bhutan’s main exports to Bangladesh are Vinegar, Vegetables, tobacco,wool and some processed foods while Importing Garments, pharmaceuticals,and electronic equipment [...]

Nepal is faced with a new crisis just a week after a cabinet expansion and a government shake up. Kosi a water way that leads into the neighboring India’s  3rd largest (by population) state spilled over. The water way started to reach its peak capacity and according to locals the technical staff as the site [...]

Pressure from rising oil prices, rising interest rates and a bust US  housing industry threatens tourists numbers around the world. Sri Lanka too was stuck with a tourist arrival decline of 0.2 percent,but once again China came to the rescue. The Chinese tourism market, one of the fastest growing markets for tourism has travel agents [...]

Sri Lankan rent a car businesses have established the Sri Lankan Rent-A-Car Association to improve and set bench marks in the countries lucrative tourism industry. The newly formed association already has eleven members and more are inline to be accredited after passing the criteria into in this association.

Currently the basic criteria into the association is [...]

A senior government official has confirmed that the southern expressway has face yet another obstacle. The expressway having had many setbacks and delays in completion date now lacks funding to be completed by the expected date of 2010.
The expressway deigned to connect the southern region of Matara with the capital Colombo significantly cutting down travel [...]

After two decades of fighting between the government forces and the separatist LTTE (Lanka Tamil Tigers Elam) the stall mate seems to be ending. There has been intensive fighting between both sides in the recent years after the Norwegian brokered peace deal failed.

LTTE in a recent act of temporary cease of offensive released a [...]

Security has been beefed up around Sri Lanka especially in the provinces that elections are going to be held soon. More than 8,000 security personnel will be watching over as the North Central Province and South Eastern (Sabaragamuva) Province goes to the polling booths on 23rd August.
So far election watch groups in Sri Lanka had [...]

Sri Lanka has received 1.05 billion dollars (USD) in total as foreign aid so far this year with loans for projects (959 million) and grants (90 million). This year aid from Iran has surpassed Japan. Traditionally Japan has been the biggest donor of this island nation followed by the manila biased Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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