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Sri Lanka: Train Tickets

12Go offers Sri Lankan train inventory to its partners and customers. With the lack of opportunities for online booking and poor service from existing online platforms, 12Go is expanding to Sri Lanka and offer to its affiliate partners revenue share model of cooperation for Sri Lankan inventory. 

Affiliate payout: the flat-rate commission = 1 USD for each ticket (seat) sold

Benefits for the Affiliates:

  • Unique offer: 12Go is the only company online which is offering a commission to affiliates for Sri Lankan trains;
  • Popularity: Sri Lanka Railways is one of the most scenic and exciting railways in the world, and therefore it is very popular among tourists;
  • Coverage: most popular routes covered (Kandy, Ella, Jaffna)
  • Fast-growing market: the number of travelers coming to Sri Lanka is increasing from year to year;
  • Excellent support from 12Go (as always)

Benefits for the Customers:

  • Clarity and relevance: 12Go provides an accurate and up to date timetable for Sri Lankan Railways;
  • PayPal/Visa/MasterCard payments in real time: secure payments are accepted online;
  • Easy options to get the ticket: as Sri Lankan Railways have no e-tickets stillcustomers can choose either pick up from the office or a hotel delivery (for extra fee 10$ directly from the operating company).
  • In September 12Go will reduce the advance booking period for trains: train tickets will be available just 5 days in advance, instead of 32 days as it is now due to the high season.
  • Tickets available for the 1st and 2nd classes.

Top Sri Lankan Railways routes by keyword searches (Google):

Route Monthly Searches
Colombo <> Kandy 390
Colombo <> Nanu Oya 50
Colombo <> Ella 50
Colombo <> Anuradhapura 50
Colombo <> Jaffna 20

Sri Lanka: Transfers 

In addition to the option of train booking, 12Go offers transfers in passenger vans and minivans.

Affiliate payout: 50% of the 12Go’s commission 

Benefits for the Affiliates:

  • High payouts: 1 USD per seat sold
  • Unique offer: a low competition to promote the inventory, which means more sales to you

Benefits for the Customers:

  • Comfortable vehicles with English-speaking drivers
  • Good for groups
  • Required dates – trouble-free

Top Sri Lanka transfer routes by keyword searches:

Route Monthly Searches
Colombo Any Hotel <> Kandy Any Hotel 390
Colombo Any Hotel <> Bandaranaike Airport 50
Colombo Any Hotel <> Fort Railway Station 20
Bandaranaike Airport <> Waikkal Any Hotel 20
Bandaranaike Airport <> Negombo Any Hotel 20

Those are just a few of the top-selling routes for transfers, please check the full list in our July 2018 inventory updates article.

We are sure that our timetable widget will be an indispensable and very useful tool for you. You publish it once and do not need to worry, that within a year Sri Lanka Railways will add or cancel train or change a schedule, as it sometimes does. Our widget updates all the information about the schedule automatically and in real time.

More Sri Lankan routes: buses in Sri Lanka and more offers for transfers with the wider range of prices – are coming in next.

If you can’t find the route in Sri Lanka mentioned in your article or required by your readers – please let us know. We will try to add it as well. 

For more information on how to start selling with 12Go Asia read our article Just Registered: How Should I Start?.

If you have any questions – feel free to contact us via affiliate@12go.asia

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