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A cruise ship operated by Louis Cruises India is to start calling Colombo port from December 07, 2009, Tourism Promotion Bureau officials said.
The cruise line is offering a four days/ three nights cruise to Colombo from the southern Indian port of Cochin.
It also offers short cruises of two days/ one night on the high seas off Cochin as well as slightly longer ones of four days/ three nights in the Maldives.
Colombo used to be a regular port of call for cruise ships sailing in the Indian Ocean.
But many cruise calls were cancelled and the port was dropped off the itinerary of cruise lines operating in the Indian Ocean as the conflict intensified.
Government forces defeated the Tamil Tiger separatists in May, ending the 30-year ethnic war, and raising expectations of a economic revival,