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Contact Info
- No. 76 1st Floor, Negombo Bus Terminal, Negombo, Sri Lanka.
- (+94) 77 3794 801
- bookings@edleetours.com
I am Asantha Ranasinghe. EDLEE TOURS & TRAVELLES' Managing Director.I take this opportunity to thank you for visiting our web site. I invite you to explore our site and let us know how we can help you to make your holiday the most memorable. We have some tour plans for you. You can select one according to your choice or let us know what you want. We are more than happy to create a new tour plan according to your suggestions, likes, and most importantly, your budget.
Highest customer satisfaction with our professional services, and building strong friendships with our clients, is our utmost goal. We know how important it is to have a relaxing and joyful holiday as it is one of the highlights in every traveler's life.
"Endless Island stories begin here" is our motto. It’s a beautiful story behind our company, and I would like to share a little with you.
Our Vision
Our Mission
EDLEE TOURS & TRAVELS is a family-based travel agency where my father, Thilak Ranasinghe, my mother, Malani Jayaratne, and I, Asantha Ranasinghe, are directors. We have registered with the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority as a travel agency and are operating our business according to government rules and regulations. Our history goes all the way back to the mid-1970s. My mother joined a hotel in Negombo.
At the time, it was a single-star hotel, and later became a three-star hotel, and today it’s a five-star. Earlier it was called Browns Beach Hotel, and today it is Heritance Negombo by Aitkens Spence. My mother influenced my father to start a new career as a tourist chauffeur, and my mother invested money to buy their first car. My father was a Sri Lanka Air Force officer before becoming a tourist chauffeur.
I was born in 1981 and both my father and mother worked in the same industry at that time, tourism and hospitality. My birthplace was in the heart of Negombo tourism, which we called "Beach Road" or "Hotel Area". Negombo has been a main destination and one of the main tourist attractions for more than 60 years now. It’s because there is a sandy beach nearby with plenty of sea foods to taste, with some leading hotels, and at the same time, Negombo is very close to Colombo International Airport as it will take only 20min to reach. After finishing school, I did my first tour under the guidance of my father at the age of
nineteen. It was the year 2000, almost 21 years ago. After years of experience, I joined a few companies as CEO, General Manager, and Executive Director. I learned a lot from them. From a very humble beginning as a tourist, driving to manage a travel agency is an amazing journey. Today it’s all about EDLEE TOURS & TRAVELS. With an experience of more than 45 years, our family business is growing each and every day. My parents taught me the real value of hospitality and how important it is to make each customer happy. I am so grateful to have such a wonderful family.
• We will stop at a vegetable selling point and ask our clients to select one or two vegetables they like. (The same can be found in their country as well). Then we will ask the accommodation provider to prepare it in Sri Lankan style. We do have our friendly places to do this. It is not with the star-class hotels or boutiques. And in the last few days of the tour, we will arrange a place to cook these same vegetables again. Before departure, we will give you the recipe and all the relevant Sri Lankan ingredients, except the vegetables. It is kind of a gift for them.
• We always create beautiful memories during the time they travel around Sri Lanka. Because we believe memories are the only thing that will keep your mind.
• We transformed our clients into friends. At the end, they will be our friends, and that’s our main goal.
Our holiday packages and services are based on flexible tour itineraries which include real local life, our culture, heritage, and unspoiled nature. We care about your holiday, so we create and adjust everything to make you feel comfortable. Promoting less touristic places with hidden attractions, real local life and local food culture, cooking Sri Lankan foods and enjoying them with our clients, promoting health and wellness programmes, are our key elements as they will give more color to your holiday. It is a gem to have a healthy lifestyle and our experience with unique programmes will make us very special in the tourism and hospitality industry.
We are registered as a travel company under Sri Lankan law. Which is important for starting a business. Our registration with the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority enables us to enter the tourism and hospitality industry and work closely with Sri Lanka Tourism.
