The best way to make the benefits of ICT to reach all the people, especially the disadvantaged as envisaged by the President is to develop local e-content talent, said President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga. The Presidential Secretary said so while participating as the Guest of Honour at the e-Swabhimani Awards 2011 held in Colombo recently. Speaking ...

(Srilankamirror) - In a bid to attract more Chinese tourists to the island, Sri Lanka has opened a page on the Chinese social networking site - www.renren.com. Xinhua reports that it is part of an ambitious plan to accelerate tourism in the country after the rout of the LTTE. The Sri Lanka

Achieving another remarkable milestone in the country’s booming tourism industry, Sri Lanka Tourism welcomed the arrival of 750,000th tourist in year 2011 at the Bandaranaike International Airport today (24th Nov.) evening.

Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals Thursday marked surpassing of its targets for the year 2011.Sri Lanka Tourism welcomed the arrival of 750,000th tourist in the year2011. According to Sri Lanka Tourism Board this is the highest arrival ever achieved.

Sri Lanka Tourism welcomes the 750,000th tourist for 2011 a short while agothus recodring the highest amount of arrivals ever in history, Sri Lanka Tourism stated.

Sri Lanka tourism welcomes the 750,000th tourist arrival which exceeds its target for 2011. This is the highest arrival ever in history, the Government Information Department stated

  Sri Lanka is reaching its annual 2011 target of 750,000 today (Thursday) – more than five weeks before the year is over – while  the number of tourists by end 2011 is expected to reach 800,000, Sri Lanka Tourism Chairman Nalaka Godahewa said. He told TimesOnline

This is the week of Budget bashing for some and for others it is the week for inventing cute ways to meet the bashes. As is usual for most, it is looking at this all in the ‘what’s in it for me?’ mode. For some, it is also about ‘who said what’ and not ‘what’s ...

. The joint efforts made by Sri Lanka Tourism, Sri Lankan Airlines and The Sri Lankan Embassy in Tokyo w...

By Cheranka Mendis The tourism industry yesterday welcomed the reduction in the online visa processing fee from the initial US$ 50 flat rate for every country, giving into the concerns and objections of industry stakeholders. The scheme, scheduled to be in effect from January 2012, will now charge US$ 10 from travellers from South Asian ...

Sri Lanka Design festival- 2011 will get underway in Colombo on Wednesday. It is being organized for the 3rd time jointly by the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau and the Academy of Design. Its objective is to promote Sri Lankan arts and crafts as well as garment designs. Amongst the countries

By Ranee Mohommed For the third consecutive year, the Sri Lanka Design Festival(SLDF) showcases Sri Lanka’s award winning apparel industry to a specifically invited global audience of buyers, retailers, sourcing specialists and backward integration supply chain partners -a key event of this apparel industry agenda at the festival is its Apparel Industry Fashion Show. The ...

Sri Lanka‘s tourist arrivals will reach unprecedented growth this year. The number of visitors is expected to reach the 800,000 mark. According to Sri Lanka Tourism the number of arrivals rose 27.2 percent in September from a year earlier and continued to rise every month on a year-on-year basis

Sri Lanka‘s tourist arrivals will reach unprecedented growth this year. The number of visitors is expected to reach the 800,000 mark.   According to Sri Lanka Tourism the number of arrivals rose 27.2 percent in September from a year earlier and continued to rise every month

Sri Lanka ‘s tourist arrivals will reach unprecedented growth this year with the number of visitors expected to touch the 800,000 mark according to Sri Lanka Tourism data.

Sri Lanka Tourism took top honors in the 2011 United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) poster competition, becoming the winner for the Best Tourism Poster Award in the South Asia region.

Sri Lanka Tourism took top honours in the 2011 United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) poster competition, becoming the winner for the ‘Best Tourism Poster’ award in the South Asia region.

Sri Lanka Tourism took top honours in the 2011 United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) pos..

Sri Lanka was represented at the ‘Tour Salon 2011’, held in Poznan from 19 – 22 October 2011. Representative of the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau along with 6 companies viz Hayleys Tours, Jetwing Travels, Aitken Spence Travels, Exotic Vacations (Pvt) Ltd, NKAR Travels & Tours (Pvt) Ltd

Oct 21, Ella: Sri Lanka tourism industry sources said today that Ella and Bandarawela police stations were trying to save the lives of eight young men who were marooned in a cave in a waterfall Friday afternoon.

The last week was an eventful week indeed. We barely recovered from the news of the death of the maverick inventor Steve Jobs. Although I am a loyal Microsoft right-brain person, I admired the ‘left-brain innovative spirit’ of Apple and the ingenuity of the man. He had not gone to university and had what some ...

Colombo: Newbie Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha has flown down to Sri Lanka on a four-day visit to film a documentary and do a magazine photoshoot.  The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau said that the 24-year-old actress will do a photoshoot at the world heritage site Sigiriya for the European

Month of the October has declared as a month of community based tourism under visit Sri Lanka programme in Sri Lanka tourism.

Oct 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Ministry of Economic Development together with Sri Lanka Tourism has organized an international forum on Community Based Sustainable Tourism to be held today.

The Hotel Sector has for the first time issued a commemorative stamp on behalf of World tourism Day.The launch of the commemorative stamp by Cinnamon Grand Hotel Group was held on the sidelines of World Tourism Day under the patronage of Minister Basil Rajapaksa at the Hotel premises. Post Master General M.K.B. Dissanayake presented the ...

Industry expects modest growth but no boom expectationsby Cheranka Mendis The tourism industry is looking at a 10-15% increase during the coming winter season although there will be no sell-out as earlier expected, according to industry experts. The season, which usually amounts to the highest number of arrivals each year, was initially expected to bring ...

The number of tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka went up 29.6 % to 72,463 in the month of August 2011, compared to August 2010 which was only 55,898, according to the latest figures released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA). .

Sept 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka has launched a new five-year plan under the guidance of the Economic Development Minister to boost tourism in the country as the country is focusing on development two years after eradicating decades-long terrorism that stalled the progress .

Sri Lanka Tourism Development Strategy for 2011-2016 was launched under the patronage of Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Economic Development at King's Court, Cinnamon Lakeside on 06 September 2011.