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JETWING ECO HOLIDAYS

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Team Members

• Introduction to eco tourism in Sri Lanka

• Jetwing Travels

• Jetwing Eco Holidays

• Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne (CEO of Jetwing Eco Holidays)

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Eco Tourism in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Eco Tourism Foundation

“To make Sri Lanka one of the most sought after ecotourism destination in the world and to built a professional ecotourism network, which serves as a model for ecotourism in the Asia and pacific Regions ”

Jetwing Travels

Jetwing Travels is a private Limited Liability Company started in 1980

Shiromal Cooray (Chairperson)

Hiran Cooray (Deputy Chairperson)

JETWING ECO HOLIDAYS

This was mainly created for those who love outdoor adventure.

Bird watching Adventure Tours

Leopard Safaris Wildlife Photography

Dragonfly and Butterfly watching

Elephant Safaris

Whale and Dolphin watching

Natural History

Excursions for Business travelers

Film Crews

CEO of Jetwing Eco Holidays

Mr. Gehan De Silva Wijeyeratne

• Why Eco Holidays?

Jetwing Eco Holidays was created to cater to specialist travelers and small, specialist tour operators who would think that a big travel company has no time for them

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

What is the process( Do you travel with the clients) or is there a team to take up the office work and travel?

Gehan decides on the product development and the office staff executes his decisions. They make sure to be on the field to assure to the clients that all their needs are satisfied to the optimum. Yet, making time to check on new arrivals and schedule a tour for them.

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

How do you promote eco tourism add to the Jetwing Eco Holiday website?

Gehan is the lead author and photographer of many publications of Books on this subject. Thus, creating a source of additional information for the potential travelers. Add to Gehan, leading publishers such New Holland and Bradt releases information

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

How did you decide to select your team since its not just a 9 to 5 job in office it is outbound as well?

The criteria were as follows:

The Directors are all personally interested in wildlife, culture and conservation.

The directors firmly believe in developing the community.

The Directors and staff travel regularly within and outside Sri Lanka, to update their knowledge.

The employees have a high degree of empathy due to their commitment to work.

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Tell us about the “Eco” tour leaders /how versatile are they in their knowledge?

The expert tour leaders are as follows……..

Wicky : knowledgeable about the Sri Lankan cultural sites

as well as nature

Hetti : birding knowledge is impressive, he is able to filter

and differentiate the sounds of the birds.

Jaya : has been leading birding tours for many years and

has lately taken an interest in primates

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Who are your main clients?

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Clients Reason

Birders Birders such as Brian and Margaret Sykes, two council members of the Oriental Bird Clubhas travelled with Jetwing.

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Clients Reason

TV Celebrities Lyndal Davies together with Oxford Scientific Films visited Sri Lanka in March 2004 for the production of a TV documentary on Elephants for the TV programme “Animal Angels”, telecast on the channel 'Animal Planet'.

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Clients Reason

Wildlife Artists and Photographers

Marianne Nightingale travels often with Jetwing Eco to visit her adopted baby elephant

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Clients Reason

Travel Writers Peter Myers from Lifestyle + Travel visited Sri Lanka to produce a supplement on what Sri Lanka offers to the ‘luxury traveler'.

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Clients Reason

Staff Outings and Business Travel

Leisure/ Annual trip from the Company employed to.

Anything you would like to tell us on behalf of Jetwing Eco Holidays?

Jetwing Eco Holidays believes in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Therefore to manifest this belief Jetwing does not encourage tour leaders to influence the travelers to shop, only upon request by the traveler.

Part of the revenue generated from this venture is retuned back to the conservation of the very source, to sustain for the consumption of the future generations.

Jetwing encourages carbon offsets-Thus, refusing plastic bottles in its hotels.

Discourages additional packing material Switched to energy efficient lighting Training trishaw drivers to be part and partial of the

inbound travel. Training provided by Dr Sriyanie Miththapala who trains

the staff on environmental best practices.

Interview with Mr. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne