Monthly Archives: August 2026

Visitor Management and Overcrowding at Yala National Park

25th August, 2026 Opinion Pieces
Visitor Management and Overcrowding at Yala National Park

Yala is Sri Lanka’s best-known wildlife park. It is also its most crowded and worst managed one, and its reputation for this is now damaging Sri Lanka’s tourism brand internationally. Every few years a new committee studies the same problems, writes the same list of fixes, and then very little happens. DWC has not enforced […]

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Sri Lanka Opens Up: A New Season of Direct Connectivity

25th August, 2026 Journal
Sri Lanka Opens Up: A New Season of Direct Connectivity

For as long as most of us can remember, flying to Sri Lanka has meant relying on a small handful of options — SriLankan Airlines’ own direct services, useful but limited in schedule and market coverage, or a stop in Dubai, Doha, or Abu Dhabi via the Gulf carriers. That is beginning to change, and […]

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