Abercrombie and Ficth, one of the worlds’ leading high end travel firms, will start operating to the Sri Lankan market effective September, 2013. This was revealed by the firm’s CEO Ian Coghlan, when he met the Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa in Colombo last week.

Coghlan told the Minister that Abercrombie and Kent will focus on sending high end tourists to Sri Lanka from various destinations in the world. The firm’s local partner is United Holidays (Private) Limited.

The firm which has a global network of 63 offices in 30 countries is also planning to train selected Sri Lankan hotel staffs to meet luxury standards in the future.

Bhashwara Gunarathna, Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism and Afghar Mohideen, Chairman, United Holidays (Private) Limited was present at the meeting abercrombie london.

Founded in 1962, Abercrombie & Kent is the world's foremost luxury travel company, delivering inspiring experiences in the world's greatest destinations through a global network of 50 offices. In year 2012 Abercrombie & Kent group of companies recorded 58% of sales from North America,16% from UK, 8% from Australia and Asia.

The latest entry by Abercrombie is a boost to Sri Lanka Tourism’s ongoing work towards attracting high end tourists to the country with the able guidance of Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa.

Abercrombie uk Sri Lanka Tourism is constantly engaged in holding promotional campaigns such as business meetings, CEO forums, exhibitions, seeking coverage from international travel magazines and inviting foreign journalists and tour operators to the country on familiarization tours to attract high end tourists to the nation.