Sri Lanka expects direct flights from Nizhny Novgorod

Sri Lanka expects to launch direct flights to Nizhny Novgorod. This was reported by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic to Russia Shobini Kaushala Gunasekera.

According to her, this year S7 opens direct flights to Sri Lanka from Novosibirsk. “I hope that the next step can be the organization of direct flights from Nizhny Novgorod,” the diplomat said.

The ambassador said that about 200,000 Russian tourists visit Sri Lanka every year. The republic expects to attract more guests from the Nizhny Novgorod region, seeing points of contact between the parties.

She noted that shipbuilding and shipbuilding are developed in the region. In addition, Sri Lanka and the Nizhny Novgorod region can complement each other in the fields of food and gastronomic tourism - the country is known for its spices, fruits and seafood. Another promising direction the Ambassador called health tourism and Ayurveda.