{"id":34499,"date":"2019-04-08T06:31:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=34499"},"modified":"2019-04-08T06:31:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:31:02","slug":"australian-tourists-bored-with-bali-look-to-enjoy-international-holidays-in-sri-lanka-by-alice-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/australian-tourists-bored-with-bali-look-to-enjoy-international-holidays-in-sri-lanka-by-alice-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian tourists bored with Bali look to enjoy international holidays in Sri Lanka &#8211; By Alice Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Australian tourists bored with Bali look to enjoy international holidays in Sri Lanka &#8211; By Alice Roberts<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Source: ABC\u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-04-04\/australian-tourists-bored-with-bali-look-to-sri-lanka\/10954176<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34500 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Australian-tourists1.jpg\" alt=\"Australian tourists\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"inline-caption\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-04-04\/elephants\/10954878\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>PHOTO:\u00a0Elephants grazing near farmland in Sri Lanka\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"source\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>(Supplied: Kate Anderson)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>A growing number of Australians are shunning Bali and Thailand in favour of holidaying in Sri Lanka, according to a Sri Lankan tourism operator.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Rahula Perera has been operating wildlife tours in Sri Lanka and is currently in central Queensland, along with three other Sri Lankans and about 70 delegates from across the north of Australia, to hone their skills as tourist guides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">According to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, the annual growth in the last five years of Australians travelling to Sri Lanka was 10.7 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Mr Perera said the rivalry between the two countries on the cricket pitch had certainly played a role in promoting the country as a holiday destination for Australians.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Key points:<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Since 2014 the number of Australians travelling to Sri Lanka has grown by 10.7 per cent<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">One tourism operator says this is because Australians have grown tired of the overfamiliar destinations of Bali and Thailand<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Tourism operators in Sri Lanka are currently visiting central Queensland to learn from the area&#8217;s tourism model and apply it in Sri Lanka<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">&#8220;Wherever I go, even though we have more than 70 years of diplomatic relations, people don&#8217;t know anything about Sri Lanka other than the tea and the cricket,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">But Mr Perera said he hoped to change that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;We are targeting Australia more and more because more Australians are travelling to Sri Lanka nowadays,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34501 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Australian-tourists2.jpg\" alt=\"Australian tourists\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"inline-caption\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-04-04\/sri-lankan-tourist\/10954290\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">PHOTO:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0Tourist operators, Rahula Perera and Jordan Wheeler, find a plant in Rockhampton that also grows in Sri Lanka.\u00a0<span class=\"source\">(ABC Capricornia: Alice Roberts)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8216;Everyone wants new destinations&#8217;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Mr Perera said there were a number of factors contributing to the growth in Australian tourist numbers in his country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;If you have been to the same location forever, you get fed up \u2014 that&#8217;s happened with Bali,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--pullquote\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Bali and Thailand are a little bit exhausted now and everyone wants new destinations for their holiday.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">This is reflected in statistics from the Australian Federation of Travel Agents, which uses information provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">While Indonesia had a 4 per cent decline in Australian visitors, China, Singapore and Japan dominated as travel destinations for Australian tourists from January 2017 to January 2018, with an average growth of 8.9 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Thailand saw a drop of 3.7 per cent of Australian tourists in 2017, visitor number did bounce back by 7.7 per cent the following year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Sri Lanka is something exotic, something small that you can manage easily. It&#8217;s an island the size of Tasmania \u2026 and a culture going back from third Century BC up to colonization and other than that, the fantastic food,&#8221; Mr Perera said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;The Sri Lankan spices are changing the world history.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Mr Perera said it was his third time in Australia and he hoped the Sri Lankan tourism industry could learn a lot from the Australian model.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/life\/what-travel-insurance-probably-doesnt-cover\/10705658\" target=\"_self\">Things your travel insurance probably doesn&#8217;t cover<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34502 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Australian-tourists4.jpg\" alt=\"Australian tourists4\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/life\/what-travel-insurance-probably-doesnt-cover\/10705658\" target=\"_self\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\">More than half of travellers aren&#8217;t properly insured. Here&#8217;s how to make sure you&#8217;re properly covered.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--pullquote\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;A lot of people don&#8217;t just want to see and take a selfie and go,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"inline-content wysiwyg right\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Australia&#8217;s top overseas travel spots:<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">New Zealand \u2014 1.4 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Indonesia \u2014 1.17m<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">USA \u2014 1.08m<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">UK \u2014 600,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Thailand \u2014 590,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">China \u2014 540,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Singapore \u2014 400,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Japan \u2014 400,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Fiji \u2014 340,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">India \u2014 370,000<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">*As of January 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;They want to learn and experience \u2014 that&#8217;s happening in both places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;But the trouble is in Sri Lanka, the infrastructure and the policies is not supporting that mindset.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Mr Perera said volunteers in the community are trying to change that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;I am with a volunteer organisation called Federation of Environmental Organisations. We are trying hard to train all the safari drivers,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;The Sri Lankan model is different. They have safari operators just close to the park, so that&#8217;s income for the local people, so we are training the safari operators to do a better safari because these people only have a drivers license and a vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;We are teaching them the animals, their behaviour, how to do the driving \u2014 it&#8217;s hard work but we&#8217;re trying to do that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Tourists looking for experiences<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Russell Boswell manages a tour guide network across northern Australia, and said the Sri Lankan tourism operators were keen to work with Australians.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--pullquote\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;They have a developing tourism industry and a lot of growth at the moment,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;This group is really interested to see if they can learn some lessons and maybe even partner with us to see if they can try and help improve the professionalism of their guides.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Mr Boswell said the course was helping tourism operators think outside the box when it came to telling stories about an area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;We like to inject some sensory touches, so maybe a smell experience or a taste experience, and all of the emotions of course in stories and the human stories,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;There are so many stories in Australia, particularly in regional Australia, that we&#8217;re always trying to work with these guides to say &#8216;what are the main points?&#8217; and &#8216;what are the best ways to get those across to a different range of visitors?&#8217;.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34503 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Australian-tourists3.jpg\" alt=\"Australian tourists\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 20px;\"><strong><a class=\"inline-caption\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-04-04\/rahula-perera\/10954338\">PHOTO:\u00a0Mr Perera attending a tourism course at the Capricorn Caves near Rockhampton.\u00a0<span class=\"source\">(ABC Capricornia: Alice Roberts)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">For Mr Perera, it was not just the lessons from the course that he&#8217;ll take away from his visit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">&#8220;This is my third visit to Australia and I travel about 45,000 kilometres on road and every kilometre I learn something,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">&#8220;This is a fantastic country to travel and there are so many things to learn on tourism aspects.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--pullquote\"><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">&#8220;The country has geared itself as a great tourism destination.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian tourists bored with Bali look to enjoy international holidays in Sri Lanka &#8211; By Alice Roberts Source: ABC\u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-04-04\/australian-tourists-bored-with-bali-look-to-sri-lanka\/10954176 PHOTO:\u00a0Elephants grazing near farmland in Sri Lanka\u00a0(Supplied: Kate Anderson) A growing number of Australians are shunning Bali and Thailand in favour of holidaying in Sri Lanka, according to a Sri Lankan tourism operator. 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