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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Event schedule of Kandy Asala Perahara 2016

Date
Event
3rd or 5th  of August
Kap planting of the four Devalas
3rd /5th  to 7th of August
Dewala Perahara (Internal Procession of four Devales)
8th to 11th  of August
1st , 2nd ,3rd ,4th,Kumal Perahara (Kumal Procession)
12th of August
Final Kumbal Perahara ( Final Kumbal Procession)
13th to 16th of August
1st , 2nd ,3rd ,4th   Randoli Perahara (Randoli Procession)
17th of August
 Final Randoli Perahara (Final Randoli Procession)
18th August
 Diya Kapeema (Day Procession/ Water cutting ceremony )

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Why you should get a travel assist

Now a day’s technology is moving faster even before you wink or blink. Therefore, you may think, should get a travel assist? Are there any benefits of using it?  Respectively yes, you should and yes, there are. There are valuable benefits that you may not receive on your own tour arrangements. Let us move to sinks to these benefits.

Cost effective
At the very first, when we are thinking a tour arrangement we concern on our budget. Because, we all willing to get the maximum, what we expend. Normally travel agents or travel assist persons have many connection networks and unique access. So they use these connection on maximum to get price discounts or price reductions. Because they know when they could offer, the competitors’ same products in a high quality respectively at a low cost they may get the chance to winning the clients. So, simply that advantage moving to you. They can save not only your money but also lead you for a free room upgrades, food and beverage credits, spa credits, early bookings discounts, hotel deals and travel advisories etc. are some of them that you may not get yourself but agents can get. Some hotels keep their reservations for their agents bookings, as it is so some reservation are hard to get. Such a situation you can get it through your agents. It is easy to move with priority or exclusive access to attraction or events, adding amenities or special arrangements these could arrange at a low cost or even free of charge. Normally travel assist persons or agents get bulk reservations and these reservations coming with discounts. They use this discount to benefit on their clients.  

If you try to do all tour plan by yourself, you have to move to lot of web sites and you would have to make lot of telephone calls. But it would not take money at even the initial stage of your tour panning if you move to a travel assist person of or a travel agent. Why, you just have to send an e-mail that saying your requests on it. They commence the work on your mail without knowing whether you would go with them or not. So at that time also you could save your money by moving with a travel assist.

Price comparison
When, you getting a travel assist or a travel agent to arrange your tour, it is very easy for you to make a price comparison. For that, you just have to put e-mails, just make a simple call for few agents, or travel assist persons. It is very easy for you to send a mail. Send the same tour request for many places. Then they will send you their quotation on that. Then you can make a price comparison using each of them. Not only prices but also you could compare their services that means what they are going to serve you on that price, that are their free offers etc. making comparison means you’ll get the real offer or the real service what you going to pay. Not only with agent wise then you can compare with the direct supplies to know whether you got a real price reduction through agent or not.


Saving of time
Rather than spending more and more online hours finding out and figure outing where to go, what to do, where to stay, what to carry, in which time likewise, you better to get a travel assist. Why you should do so? Because the travel assist persons or travel agent who are relevant to each country and who are residents there know well about their country than we are. So when you are saying regarding your budget and about your favors, they have the capability to figure out your tour quickly. Then they will provide you quick simple idea on your tour within a short time. Sometimes it may be one day. (Because they give the priority to the commencement date of tour) However, it is better than you spend one week on your tour planning. After that, you just have to customize your tour until you get your dream and personalize tour concerning your budget. Therefore, it leads to save your valuable time.

They know the subject than we are
Travel assist is not an easy task because they have to look after the person, who is not familiar to the destination. They have to care about the person coming under them. Therefore, they always try to update their knowledge on the industry. They follow all the new trend in tourism, such as what are the new accommodation, what are the new offers to clients, what are the places that high rate or low rates in each periods, what are the new and upcoming events on each seasons, about the climatic condition at each places likewise. They have many connections, which are helpful to them. Actually, tourism is not a single industry, directly or indirectly all the sections in the society connecting with it. So travel assist person should be a multi skill persons. They have to deal with various kind of people who are coming under various societies and cultures. They have to communicate with them directly. So they are always be sure to equipped with all of these fields.

So they have the capability of updating you on your tour even it’s before your tour and on the way your tour. As an example if you say, “I wish to see leopards on my tour,” they lead you to the correct place at the correct time with the right persons. They can provide first hand insider knowledge on the destination. They always update their service with using their clients’ feedback and complain. Using these things they will give you advice and lead you to a memorable tour using their personal experience and education, which is lead to give a great value for your hard-earned income and for your leisure investment.

A safety net
If you hand over your tour arrangement to someone else such as a tour assist persons, they undertake the responsibility on it. They take all the responsibilities such as making hotel reservation and event arrangements, allocating guides, tour arrangement, and customization, preparing of tour quotation, etc. You just have to send an email mentioning your necessaries. You don’t want to worry whether this place or event is actually exist, at what time I should reach there to participate on it likewise. They arrange all the things and lead you correct places in correct time. You don’t want to worry are we safe at our tour. They always with you on you tour for any kind of assets and if any event request any advice they provide that it early before you travel to that. As they have network of connections they have the capability of giving helping hand while you are on tour. If something goes wrong, there is an emergency connection also. They become a safe guard for you from your arrival to your departure. After your departure, also they work up to ensure whether you reach to your home safely. 

They have the connections
As early mentioned it is not easy to do travel assist. It always should be aware about what’s happening around. For that travel, assist persons or agents have been making more and more connection with related fields. As an example with aviation, events, current political situation, climatic conditions, with transport handling, with telecommunications, history and cultural things, currency, accommodation etc. when you’re moving to a new destinations it’s better to go with a person who knows these things. If you want to arrange a multi-events and multi stop trips with layovers and connecting flights, they have the capability of making connection and make combinations that you could not.

They always try to control these relationships to get you things that you can’t get your own. Sometimes there may be some rooms sold out at the web site or even some events may be fully booked, But if you move with an assist person it’ll available for you. Because some assist, persons or agents have exclusive entrĂ©e for some places with their connections. This also means that they have connections, and thus are often able to score you benefits like room upgrades, hard-to-get restaurant reservations, and sold-out tours and events. Based on these connections travel assist persons or agents will not charge you for their works such as for hotel reservations, for early event booking etc. They get paid for these on behalf of you. So you may get the change to pay for your tour on arrival or for half payment before your arrival and continuation after arrival. Not only that but also because of these connections all their partners keep them informed regarding latest and greatest offerings they have.

They make suggestions
If you call to hotel or an event-arranging place directly if they have the availability, they may say yes we are, or no we have not and they don’t lead you to an another palace or for their competitors. Since travel assist persons or agents have every connections and updates, they force you on suggestions, to match with your particular needs and to match with your budget. If your requesting place or accommodation already booked, they direct you for similar places, which match with your favors. And also if your requesting accommodation is not fit with your tour or if your tour and accommodations are staying a gap they show you the palaces that should be customize and help you on that.

They fix everything

Normally travel assist persons or agents play an intermediary role among you and service supplies. When something goes wrong you have to called and fix them yourself when you are moving your own. However, when your move with a travel assists persons you don’t want to worry because they always double check with the service providers before your arrival to ensure your satisfaction on your journey.  Especially they double-check with your fight details, your room reservations, event arrangements and your transport or your guides.