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TUI cancels holidays to Sri Lanka as Foreign Office urges people not to travel

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TUI has cancelled holidays to Sri Lanka amid a ‘deteriorating’ political and financial situation over in the country. The airline said that flights departing up to and including May 31, 2022 have been cancelled.All customers impacted by the cancellations are being contacted, TUI confirmed in a statement.

It comes after the Foreign Office urged people not to travel to Sri Lanka unless it is for an essential reason. A state of emergency was declared and an island-wide curfew was enforced earlier this month after a number of incidents - which involved violence against peaceful protesters.TUI said in a statement: “Due to the ongoing political and economic instability in Sri Lanka, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) have advised against all but essential travel.“As a result, we’ve unfortunately had to cancel all holidays to Sri Lanka departing up to and including May 31, 2022.“We will be proactively contacting all impacted customers in departure date order to discuss their options.“Please note this advice does not apply to customers transiting through Sri Lanka’s international airport and customers currently in resort can continue to enjoy their holiday as planned.“We will continue to monitoring the situation and update customers should there be any further updates.

We would like to thank our customers for their understanding at this time.”The Foreign Office has advised that the economic situation in Sri Lanka is ‘deteriorating’ as a result of the growing civil unrest.

Locals are said to be struggling to secure basically necessities, including medicines, cooking gas, fuel and food because of a shortage of hard currency to pay for imports.

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