Govt to further relax tourism regulations-PM

Govt to further relax tourism regulations-PM

The government is in the process of simplifying tourism regulations and taking several meaningful steps such as single window, relaxing red tape, issuing free visa on arrivals to promote Sri Lanka’s tourism and investment climate, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told the Cinnamon Future Tourism summit in Colombo yesterday.Answering a question by CNN’s Richard Quest, the Prime Minister said, “The government must ‘get out’ of meddling with the ‘tourism industry’ and should not have a lot of regulations.”Popular CNN Correspondent and the host of Quest Means Business, Richard Quest is in Colombo to participate at the Cinnamon Future of Tourism summit.