Designing journeys that welcome more people and honour the places that host them.

Travel is not a transaction.
It is a relationship—with people, place, and time.

We believe well-designed travel should welcome more people, work better for everyone, and leave places stronger than we found them.
This principle shapes both the journeys we curate and the advisory work we do across Sri Lanka.

Inclusive Tourism Advisory

Designing hospitality experiences that welcome more people — and work better for everyone.

Beyond our own journeys, Time Travel Ceylon provides strategic advisory, experience design, and capacity-building support for hospitality and destination partners in Sri Lanka.

We help organisations move from intention to implementation—embedding inclusive tourism into systems, services, and stories.

Hasini Haputhanthri founder of Timetravel Ceylon with community group

Where Our Commitment Comes From

Our approach to inclusive tourism grows naturally from the life-work of our founders, Hasini and Kasun.

Across years of experience in community development, culture, storytelling, experience design, communications, and institutional advisory, they have worked with diverse audiences, designing experiences that build confidence and invite participation rather than exclusion.

At Timetravel Ceylon, inclusive tourism is not a trend or a label. It is a natural extension and continuation of working with communities, heritage and culture. It is the application of good design to human experience.

Inclusion is not an add-on.
It is the foundation of meaningful experience.
— Hasini Haputhanthri, working with a community theatre group, Praja Diriya Foundation, Puttalam in 2008

Inclusion in Our Journeys

Inclusion is embedded into how Time Travel Ceylon journeys are designed and delivered.

We do this by:

  • Travelling at a humane, considered pace

  • Offering clear and honest information before and during each journey

  • Designing experiences that are flexible without losing meaning

  • Working with local hosts and storytellers as collaborators, not performers

  • Respecting dignity, agency, and difference at every stage

Our journeys are intentionally small and responsive—allowing space for listening, adaptation, and care.

Inclusion begins at the design stage, not at the point of service.
— Kasun Pathiraja