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A special programme has been formulated to attract foreign tourists in parallel to the 2600th Sambuddhatva Jayanthiya. Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena made this reference addressing a media briefing in Colombo. The Minister said Sri Lanka Tourism expects many religious tourists to Sri Lanka

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Land prices in several tourism development zones in Sri Lanka would be re-valued to attract more investments while the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authorityâs one-stop-shop received 99 project app .....

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Sri Lanka Tourism has tied up with Singapore Airlines to get its support to promote Sri Lanka in a number of Asian countries and also in Australia.   The one-year MOU took effect from April this year. It will see both parties jointly funding tourism promotion activities

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Singapore Airlines and Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) have signed a Memorandum of Unders..

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Singapore Airlines and Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly promote tourism to Sri Lanka through the Airline’s services to Colombo.

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“What hurts me is that the panel has failed to recognize the immense steps the government has taken to bring peace and reconciliation, matched with development, to the north and north-east of the country that not too long ago was controlled with an armed fist by the LTTE states Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.Within the first 12 months of the war ending we even re-settled over 350,00 displac...

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Sri Lanka Tourism has named April in the Visit Sri Lanka 2011 Events Calendar, as the month to celebrate People and Culture. To celebrate the theme of ‘People and

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Sri Lanka Tourism aims at attracting over one million tourists this year, Senior Minister Dr.Sarath Amunugama has revealed this to top businessmen in the United States. He said that 600 thousand tourists arrived in Sri Lanka last year the country attracted over 600,000 tourists

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A team of tourism officials headed by Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau (SLTPB) Acting Managing Director Malraj Kiriella welcomed the 250,000th tourist at the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday. The guest Ronke Noordhuis a Dutch national, accompanied by his wife Inge and three sons

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India remained the top tourist generating market for Sri Lanka in the first quarter of 2011. According to official figures released today, Sri Lanka received 37,476 Indian tourists in the first three months of this year. It is 43.4 per cent more than the corresponding period. According to Sri Lanka

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  The Tourism Promotion Bureau is to introduce a new programme to promote the Sinhala and Tamil New Year festival globally. Under this programme every tourist who arrives to the island during the month of April is being given the opportunity to take part in New Year festivals. The Sri Lanka

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Foreign exchange earnings coming from tourism increased to an unprecedented level of Rs. 56.24 billion, thus registering an increase of 49.9 % as compared to Rs. 37.51 billion recorded in the previous year, stated the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. .

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The fast recovering Sri Lanka tourism industry is getting another big boost with the World Tourism O..

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Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority refutes the “Island” story captioned “Lanka to restrict tourist arrivals”  In the Financial Review of  March 11th Island newspaper in the first page in bold headlines it was stated that “Lanka to restrict tourist arrivals”.

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World famous past cricketer and commentator Tony Greig has been appointed as Sri Lanka Tourism ambassador by Sri Lanka Tourism. This was officially announced at the Cinnamon Grand hotel last Monday.

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Sri Lanka's participation at the North America's premier travel event "The New York Times Travel Show" held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Centre in New York City from February 25-27 has attracted the attention of the participants very much

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Feb 28, New York: Sri Lanka Tourism and SriLankan Airlines took part at the North America's premier travel event "The New York Times Travel Show" held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Centre in New York City from February 25-27, 2011.

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An increase of 46 percent in tourist arrivals has been reported last month. This is indicated in the statistics released by Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. 5757 tourists arrived in Sri Lanka during January last year and the number has increased to 74 thousand 197 during January

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The UK office of Sri Lanka Tourism wins the prestigious CIM Marketing Excellence Award 2010.

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The total number of tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka went up 46.2 to 74,197 last month. In January last year the figure was only 50,757. Latest figures released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority show an increase in the number of arrivals from Western Europe, South Asia, East Asia, Middle

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The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) has stated that the tourist arrivals in the country has seen a 46.2 percent increase in January this year in comparison to the corresponding period last year. SLTDA statistics have recorded 74,197 tourist arrivals in January

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Sri Lanka tourist arrivals for the month of January went up 46.2 to 74, 197 compared with the same month of the previous year, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority...

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The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has announced Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau (SLTPB) as the proud winner of the PATA Gold Awards 2011 in Marketing Media – Travel Poster category held for PATA Travel Marketing Excellence Awards in year 2011.

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Sri Lanka Tourism has lined up a series of attractive programs and activities to provide information on future plans and promotions on Sri Lankan products, services as well as hotel, tourism and recreational facilities for domestic and international tourists attending the "Deyata Kirula" national

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Sri Lanka said it hopes tourism will be on the rise in the next few years as a hard-won peace settles into the area.

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Several new programmes are being planned for this year for the promotion of the tourism industry. It is hoped to launch many tourism promotion programmes, including the conservation of coral reef, sea sports and watching of sea animals. The programmes will be unveiled from the beginning of next month. These will be handled by the ...

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To mark Silver Jubilee of Vicroy Soecial Steam Train February 2 marks a special day for Sri Lanka Tourism when the Viceroy Luxury Steam Train celebrates its 25th anniversary with a run from Colombo fort to Rambukkana. The Government, Sri Lanka Tourism Chairman Nalaka Godahewa said,  recognizing

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Sri Lanka Tourism is geared to provide quality service to the large number of tourists who are expected to arrive in the country during the next five years, Sri Lanka Tourism Chairman Nalaka Godahewa said.

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The concept of providing lodging houses for tourists is being launched to facilitate tourists. Deputy Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said that this programme would be instrumental in providing the economic benefits to the people. He said that the aim of the government is to make tourism a people’s industry. The number of rooms available for ...

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Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority has said that around four million tourists would visit Sri Lanka in 2012. Additional Director General of Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, Dilip Mudadeniya has told the media that the Authority expected an influx of tourists

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