The world at your fingertips with Worldlink Tours

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“I have travelled the world over on both holiday and business but this is one of the most useful things we came across, we used the e-tablet thru out the tour Skyping our family practically every day. I even did all my email correspondence with office as the connectivity was super fast,” said Rishi from Hong Kong who recently did a six-day tour of Sri Lanka with Worldlink Tours.

Worldlink Tours has come up with a novel idea where they have a Etisalat e-tablet on board their new Nissan Caravan and this is given free of charge to all the guests to use while on tour in Sri Lanka.

‘Our guest now can Skype, browse the internet, watch any movie they like or even check their emails while on tour in any city or a remote small village in Sri Lanka using the e-tablet that we have on board our tour van. It’s like being on board an aircraft. We have created history and taken the tourism industry in Sri Lanka to a new level by implementing a simple but unique idea. As Rishi said, this may probably be a first in the world,” said Ahintha Amerasinghe – Chairman of Worldlink Tours, the inbound arm of the Worldlink Travel Group.

Worldlink Travel Group has been in the industry for over 20 years and is one of the finest travel companies in Sri Lanka. The group consists of seven companies serving the travel needs of various segments in the industry. Worldlink Travel and Travelzone are top corporate travel agencies.

Dream Holidays is one of the best out bound holiday packaging companies handling both large and small groups to various parts of the world. Worldlink Air Services are the agents in SriLanka for South African Airways Princess Cruises and Cunard Lines while their newest venture Cruise World represents the world famous river cruise company – Uniworld River Cruises. Worldlink will also enter the hotel industry once they complete their new hotel project in Sigiriya, Sigiri Oya Resort.

“Worldlink Tours is still an infant in the inbound industry in Sri Lanka but I think that with the dawn of peace and the growth of tourism to Sri Lanka, we must get away from the belief that Sri Lanka is a destination for cheap tourists as by nature we have such a beautiful country. By us offering this unique idea of mobile connectivity even from a small remote village, the guests who tour Sri Lanka will know that our country is far more developed, even in technology. I think all other tour operators too should follow our lead and be able to offer their guests this facility,” said Gerard Amerasinghe, Director of the Worldlink Travel Group.