Sri Lanka Eco Tours (SLET) is a registered travel company with the Registrar of Business Names, Sri Lanka, and is also registered and licensed as a Travel Agent by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) SLET is also a member of the Asia-Pacific Regional Ecotourism Council (APREC) and The International Ecotourism Society (TIES)
The Primary Objective of SLET is to promote, Nature, Adventure and Ecotourism in Sri Lanka with a special focus on Community Based Ecotourism. Sri Lanka Eco Tours is the only Tour Company in Sri Lanka which supports Community Based Ecotourism Enterprises (CBEs) directly, initiated by Sri Lanka Ecotourism Foundation (SLEF) and other like-minded organization who are in SLEF/SLET Network
What makes SLEF and SLET distinct in offering Community Tourism Packages? We encourage our guests to do things in a Sri Lankan way!
- Interact with local community and experience their life styles
- Visits to colonial era tea estates, visit tea plucker’s homes, orphanages, rural schools etc
- Respect Sri Lanka Culture and Heritage and offer opportunities to the visitors to gain a cross-cultural experience
- Encouraging the visitors to use local transports such as trains and buses
Promote home stays, locally owned eco-lodges, small guest houses and hotels, community camping
The major part of the tourism income generated by SLET is channeling back to support in developing Ecotourism in Sri Lanka and to assure economic benefits to the Community Based Ecotourism Enterprises (CBEs, which had already been initiated by Sri Lanka Ecotourism Foundation (SLEF), in different parts of tourism generating areas in Sri Lanka. These ongoing activities tremendously help the poor communities in tourism generating areas in Sri Lanka to involve in the tourism process and to secure substantial alternative income to support their families. The tourists supporting us wish to see that the money spent by them at the destination retains with the communities where they interact
Our Mission
is to identify, develop and conserve ecological sensitive sites and locations in Sri Lanka and to facilitate services to target genuine ecotourists, who would visit and appreciate the unspoiled eco sites in Sri Lanka in their pristine natural beauty.
SLET is extensively linked to many reputed ecotourism business promotion organizations all over the world, through its supporting institution, Sri Lanka Ecotourism Foundation (SLEF)
Contact details
Mobile; +94 71 2566874/ + 94 777 631334
Fax; + 94 11 205 2578
Email; sleco@sltnet.lk