INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sri Lanka bagged the prestigious British Guild of Travel Writers Tourism Award for the Best International Tourism project in the Wider World
for The Pekoe Trail, at the Annual Gala Awards held in London on Sunday (05).This is the first time Sri Lanka has secured an International
Tourism Award at the renowned British Guild
efforts to revive the tourism industry in our country, after a few challenging years, by innovating and celebrating authentic travel, in a
said.The Pekoe Trail has won the award beating 04 other major projects nominated under the wider-world category
Sri Lanka Tourism has also partnered with the British Guild this year to host the International Tourism Awards segment exposing new tourism
Tourism extended its gratitude to the founder of the Pekoe Trail, Miguel Cunat, European Union and the U.S
Agency for International Development for funding the project and thanked Petra Shepherd and Jessica Vincent for nominating Sri Lanka for
this award and for featuring wonderful stories about the trail, and to all the other numerous travel writers and journalists that have
written so many wonderful things about the trail and Sri Lanka.Sri Lanka Tourism is all set to announce this major win at the WTM Opening
