The program is part of Sri Lanka's strategy to transform into a visa-free destination like Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Sri Lanka's cabinet approved issuing free tourist visas to visitors from 35 countries including China , India and Russia , a top official said, to boost tourism and help revive its crisis-hit economy.
"The aim of the government is to transform Sri Lanka into a visa-free country, much like Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, to tap into the benefits of a rapidly growing tourism industry," Gunawardana told reporters on Thursday at a weekly cabinet briefing. The country of 22 million people, famed for its beaches, ancient temples and aromatic tea, saw its tourism industry pummelled first by the COVID-19 pandemic and then by a severe financial crisis in 2022 that saw mass-scale protests and shortages of essentials such as fuel.
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