Experience Travel Group – Gourmet Galle Festival 2024: Sri Lanka’s New Culinary Event
by Melissa Nicholas There’s plenty in store for 2024… including a fresh new festival in Sri Lanka called Gourmet Galle (set to add a culinary dimension to the wonderful Galle Literary Festival). We’re so pleased that this country’s foodie scene is finally being celebrated. It’s so deserving of the limelight (despite flying relatively under the radar – until now!). […]
Condé Nast Traveler – Gourmet Galle: Discovering South Sri Lanka’s culinary gems
The inaugural Gourmet Galle festival is taking place until the end of March BY Emma Whitehair | January 19, 2024 In the wake of numerous challenges in recent years, Sri Lanka has demonstrated remarkable resilience, giving rise to a renewed spirit of optimism for the first time in several seasons. This is especially evident on the south […]
Time Out – The 24 best things to do in the world in 2024
Edited by Grace Beard | Written by Time Out editors & Time Out contributors | Wednesday 13 December 2023 17. Eat your way through a 12-week-long culinary extravaganza After a pandemic-induced hiatus, one of South Asia’s most well-known arts fests – Galle Literary Festival – will make its long-awaited return to the Sri Lankan city of Galle this January. […]
Nikkei Asia – Sri Lanka aims to transform tourism
Aditi Sarawagi, Contributing writer | November 11, 2023 12:00 JST In a major development, Galle Literary Festival, last held in 2019 in the centuries-old Galle Fort in Galle — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — will be relaunched in 2024 in partnership with the SLTPB. Apsara, who will be one of the speakers at the […]