Aitken Spence Travels welcomed its first charter from Poland together with TUI Poland for the second consecutive year. The Polish tourists were warmly welcomed by the staff of Aitken Spence Travels and TUI partner staff with flowers, beetle leaves and welcome dancers together with drummers performing a traditional welcome to Sri Lanka.
The Polish charter will be attracting 13 charter flights from Poland with one arriving every 11 days until end March 2019. It is estimated that 24,000 room nights will be used by the Polish travellers, predominantly staying at beach properties and taking up day excursions to explore the diversity the country has to offer.
The flights are a result of the longstanding partnership between TUI, the world’s largest integrated tourism company and Aitken Spence Travels. Arrivals from Poland has shown a 6.3% growth in 2017 recording 15,346 pax against 2016 of 14,432 pax. However, country arrivals from Poland as at end September 2018 was 14,078 pax and is expected to grow positively.
Commenting on the Charter flight Aitken Spence Travels Vice President Niranjan Rodrigo stated, “Despite the severe competition in the industry, we were able to convince TUI Poland to operate this charter flight with Aitken Spence Travels from Warsaw to Colombo, Sri Lanka. We have negotiated with hoteliers to make the destination attractive by way of special rates and have extend our fullest support to TUI Poland to promote destination Sri Lanka aggressively among their agents. We are confident that this charter operation will be a great success for the second consecutive year and build confidence with our partners to continue the charter operation and look at avenues to grow the numbers. We will work with TUI Poland to strengthen our partnership to allow more Polish tourists to visit Sri Lanka and experience Sri Lanka’s diverse attractions apart from the Sun and Sea proposition with attractive innovative tours and itineraries.”
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