Sri Lanka Tourism opens Tourist Information Kiosks

With the vast growth in tourism, the need for technological advancement in the tourism industry has also increased immensely and to fulfil this present need, the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau under the Ministry of Economic Development together with Intelo Networks, launched a joint project to establish a network of Digital Tourist Information Kiosks (TIKs) to provide information required by tourists. The TIKs provides information via an interactive touch screen in an accurate, trustworthy and timely manner. This unit will initially accommodate 10 languages: Sinhalese, Tamil, English, German, Japanese, Dutch, Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Italian. Tourists will be able to gain more information about Sri Lanka by viewing the available video content.