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Intelo Networks (Pvt) Ltd., has developed the first ever digital Tourist Information Kiosks (TIKs) launched recently by the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau under the aegis of Ministry of Economic Development. To identify the locations of the Tourist Information Kiosks, Intelo has planned
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By Uditha Jayasinghe Showcasing the need for vigilance, over 1,500 foreigners who remained illegally in the country after their visas expired were detected within the first two months of 2012, a top immigration official said yesterday. Controller General of Immigration and Emigration Commissioner for Registration of Persons of Indian Origin W. Perera told the Daily ...
- Information of overstaying foreigners requested (Category: Business)
- E Monitoring (Category: Business)
- Frenchman arrested by CID (Category: Breaking News)
- 250 visa overstayers deported (Category: Breaking News)
With the vast growth in tourism, the need for technological advancement in the tourism industry has also increased immensely and to fulfil this present need, the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau under the Ministry of Economic Development has taken a step forward, together with Intelo Networks
- SL Tourism welcomes 750,000th tourist arrival (Category: Breaking News)
- 2012, another positive year for tourism – BMI (Category: Business)
- Tourism industry upbeat with influx (Category: Breaking News)
- Warm welcome for record-breaking 800,000th tourist arrival in 2011 (Category: Business)
By Cheranka Mendis Tourism in the South Asian sub region will be collectively promoted with Buddhism and ecotourism circuits at the lead during the next five years through a road map designed by the five-member South Asia Sub Region Tourism Working Group (TWG). Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa launches the South Asia sub regional tourism ...
- South Asia least integrated in world: WB (Category: Business)
- Tourist arrivals in Feb. up 27% (Category: Business)
- ‘Growing Together’: The ‘Asia Pacific century’ (Category: Business)
- Developing Asia’s growth to moderate amid global uncertainty, says ADB (Category: Business)
The topic of Sustainable Tourism will be featured at the Global Compact Network Ceylon’s quarterly Sustainability Knowledge Hub, to be held on Thursday, 29 March. At 6 p.m., the Auditorium of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute will open its doors to an eminent panel of speakers which includes Six Senses Resorts and Spas founding Chairman and ...
- Sri Lanka to celebrate World Tourism Day tomorrow (Category: Business)
- Green hotels recognised in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Green hotels recognised in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Green hotels recognised in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 27% to 83,549 in February from a year earlier, continuing the growth momentum established in 2010. Data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority yesterday showed arrivals topping 169,423 during the first two months
- Tourist Arrivals (Category: Business)
- TOURIST ARRIVALS HAVE DOUBLED FROM JANUARY TO MAY. (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourist arrivals have doubled from January to May (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up by 27 percent in February over last year (Category: Breaking News)
My column today is an attempt to focus our attention on a few less spoken or untold developments that may have a profound influence on how we carve our way through in creating a desirable social, economic and political future for mankind on this only planet of ours. While I will not specifically touch on ...
- Development-led globalisation (Category: Business)
- The ‘Doha Mandate’ (Category: Business)
- UNCTAD should address challenges faced by developing world (Category: Business)
- Global trends in investment (Category: Business)
Ajantha Perera takes the position of Director of Sales and Marketing at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo of the John Keells Hotels Group. Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo is currently ranked the Best Five Star City Hotel by Sri Lanka Tourism. Perera joins the hotel with a wealth of experience spanning
- New GM takes over at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo (Category: Business)
- Ronald new Front Office Manager at Cinnamon Lakeside (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Lakeside first Green Globe re-certified Sri Lankan hotel (Category: Business)
- Overwhelming response to IBM FORUM event hosted in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lanka China Business Council of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce will organise a seminar on ‘Capitalising on Sri Lanka’s Potential for Chinese Customers’ on 19 March at the Ground floor auditorium of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce from 2:30 p.m. onwards. The seminar will focus on Sri Lanka’s potential for Chinese customers in ...
- Chinese Communist Party and SLPP hold joint seminar on governance (Category: Breaking News)
- Fighting Experience (Category: Business)
- Secretary Defence delivers Keynote Address at 'Defence Seminar - 2012' (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourism- the theme of Marketing Institute Seminar this year. (Category: Breaking News)
Signifying the unbreakable link between the industry of tourism and culinary arts, Bocuse d’Or World Champion 2009 Chef Geir Skeie showed up in Sri Lanka on 12 Monday at the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourist Hotel Management, where he shared his cooking expertise with the local Hotel School Students. The World Cham-pion chef arrived in ...
- Bocuse dOr World Champion Chef Geir Skeie visits Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Spoons welcomes winner of world cooking contest Chef Skeie (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to participate in Bocuse d’Or competition for the first time (Category: Business)
- Executive Chef of Hilton Colombo honoured as President of Bocuse d’Or, Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Veteran hotelier Prema Cooray was inducted to the Hall of Fame of the Pacific Area Travel Writers Association (PATWA) last week on the sidelines of the ITB 2012 in Berlin. The induction of Cooray was done during the annual international awards ceremony of PATWA held at the ITB, the world’s biggest travel fair and is ...
- Prema joins Alhambra Hotels Board (Category: Business)
- Prema Cooray appointed Chairman of Reefcomber (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka to push for 800,000 + arrivals mark at WTM (Category: Business)
- Keells tops Tourism awards with tally of 12; Spence takes 7 (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka is putting on a better show at this year’s edition of the annual International Tourism Bourse (ITB) in Berlin. Considered to be the largest global event of the travel industry, ITB 2012 has on show 53 travel/hotel companies including hoteliers, travel agents and other organisations that provide tourism related services. The Sri Lankan ...
- SWITCH-Asia sponsors SME hoteliers to visit ITB Berlin (Category: Business)
- 10,644 exhibitors from 187 countries at ITB Berlin 2012 (Category: Business)
- Prema enters the Hall of Fame at PATWA (Category: Business)
- Warm welcome for record-breaking 800,000th tourist arrival in 2011 (Category: Business)
Rs. 185 million BOT project provides eco-friendly waste water treatment infrastructure for National Holiday Resort on east coastPlans to revive tourism in the picturesque Passikudah bay on Sri Lanka’s east coast reached a milestone on 6 March, with the commissioning of a hi-tech central sewage and waste water treatment plant for the proposed National Holiday ...
- Haycarb records Rs. 8.5 b sales (Category: Business)
- Haycarb’s 1H sales Rs. 3.8 billion, PBT Rs. 334 million (Category: Business)
- Basil opens Amethyst Resort in Passikudah (Category: Business)
- Minister Basil inaugurates water purification project for Trinco (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka Tourism Chairman Dr. Nalaka Godahewa addressed the members of The Council for Business with Britain (CBB) of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce recently. He highlighted the vision of President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the tourism industry, the world’s largest service industry
- Tourism development strategy finalised (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourism to be top forex earner in 2016 (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI Lanka Tourism: A Step Forward in the Growth Story | By Inshita Wij (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka seeks $2.7 bln post-war tourism investment (Category: Breaking News)
Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo said this week it will now on host special events at 8° On The Lake, providing discerning diners the opportunity to enjoy the hotel’s newest experience. The floating venue was officially opened on 19 December 2011 by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. During its first stage of operations, 8° On The Lake functioned ...
- Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo innovates again with first star class floating venue (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Lakeside celebrates our heroes on Father’s Day (Category: Business)
- Love is in the air at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo (Category: Business)
- ‘Brunch on a Boat’ for the first time in Sri Lanka at CLC (Category: Business)
Safety and food hygiene of Colombo eating houses quite poor, says CMC’s Chief Medical Officer By Cheranka Mendis Even though Colombo has over 750 eating houses (from five-star hotels to roadside ‘bath kades’), only 290 obtained trade licenses last year, CMC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam said. Speaking at the Indexpo food and management ...
- Typhoid: Public Urged To Take Precautions (Category: Breaking News)
- CMC on kitchen cleaning spree (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s first-ever food certification firm set up with $ 1.3 m (Category: Business)
- Ind-Expo helps industries and hotels meet new food hygiene regulations (Category: Business)
McQuire Rens & Jones (Pvt) Ltd. together with Hotel Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo yet again organised one of their flagship events, ‘The Breakfast Meeting’. This is the fourth in the series where such breakfast meetings are held every other month for chairmen, managing directors and CEOs. Attendance at these events is by invitation. The past breakfast ...
- Cinnamon Lakeside-McQuire breakfast meeting a success (Category: Business)
- Insights to enhancing biz performance over breakfast (Category: Business)
- Experience the first-ever Christmas breakfast table (Category: Business)
- HSBC Power Breakfast (Category: Business)
Switch-Asia ‘Greening Sri Lanka Hotels’ project makes progressBy Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka Tourism will soon introduce a ‘Green Accreditation Scheme’ for hotels which would classify hotels under its green initiatives, Switch Asia Project Director Srilal Miththapala said. The scheme
- Switch-Asia to host tourism sustainability seminar (Category: Business)
- Srilal speaks on Sri Lanka and sustainable tourism in London (Category: Business)
- EU-SWITCH Asia teams up with ICEI to promote edible landscaping in hotels (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka launches tourism think tank (Category: Business)
Laugfs Leisure Ltd., a fully own subsidiary of the Laugfs Gas Plc in its strive to become one of the dominant players in the hospitality industry has acquired Mag Consultants and Agents Pvt Ltd., (MCAPL) and its assets, comprising 1 5 acres of prime sea front beach property at Waskaduwa Kalutara with an investment of ...
- LAUGFS Supermarkets launch loyalty card (Category: Business)
- LAUGFS partners Chartis for unique insurance deal (Category: Business)
- Veteran hotelier Srilal appointed to LAUGFS Leisure Board (Category: Business)
- LAUGFS opens foreign money exchange facility at Kohuwala (Category: Business)
Yala is the undisputed home of the Sri Lankan leopard, the star attraction of the Yala National Park. With Sri Lanka claiming the highest density of leopard in Yala within 140 kilometres, the newest phenomenon in these illusive cats is the rapidly growing population, which has naturally seen them venture out of the park and ...
- Sri Lankans urged to diversify leopard trail (Category: Business)
- Chitral’s take on Chaaya Wild and the wild (Category: Business)
- Leisure laughs! (Category: Business)
- JKH revamps leisure footprint with Chaaya Tranz, Chaaya Wild (Category: Business)
The Daily FT spoke to the Immediate Past President of Sri Lanka Association of Inbound Tour Operators (SLAITO) and Chairman and Managing Director of Conniassance de Ceylan Ltd., on the state of post-war Sri Lanka tourism industry, the progress and key challenges as well as future prospects
- Future of Sri Lanka Tourism: Former SLAITO Chief sheds key insights (Category: Business)
- Strategic policy needed for Sri Lanka Tourism (Category: Business)
- SLAITO on expectations and challenges facing tourism industry (Category: Business)
- Prema joins Alhambra Hotels Board (Category: Business)
By Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka Tourism has got off to a good start in 2012 with January arrivals reaching a record 85,874, up by 15.7% over the corresponding month of last year. For the month of January the largest arrivals from a single country came from neighbouring India which records 14, 615
- Tourist arrivals exceed 60,000 in 16 days (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka records over 200,000 tourist arrivals for second consecutive month in 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourist arrival rise by 46 percent (Category: Breaking News)
- TOURIST ARRIVALS IN JANUARY INCREASE (Category: Breaking News)
In tandem with the private sector rush to harness the post-war tourism rebound, the Government this week joined the trend by kicking off its own Rs. 300 million resort in Anuradhapura, though targeting domestic tourists. Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa on the sidelines of Deyata Kirula laid the foundation stone for a tourist resort ...
- EARNINGS FROM TOURISM TO REACH ONE BILLION DOLLARS THIS YEAR (Category: Breaking News)
- Where Is Sri Lanka Tourism Going? (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President emphasizes progress in tourism sector, ready to provide required facilities (Category: Breaking News)
The Colombo City Tour, Sri Lanka’s first-ever open deck sightseeing tour which is a venture of Sri Lanka Tourism and Ebert Silva Holidays, celebrated its second anniversary on 28 January 2012. To mark this event, the Colombo City Tour team carried out a special CSR project for 100 children
- Colombo City Tour 2nd anniversary celebrated with children of war heroes (Category: Business)
- Ebert Silva Holidays wins tourism award for Colombo City tour (Category: Business)
- Mesmerising Vesak Colombo city tour (Category: Business)
- Tourists coming in the thousands! (Category: Business)
Following is the ‘Zheng He’ oration delivered by Sri Lanka Tourism Chairman Dr. Nalaka Godahewa last Tuesday at the Auditorium of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management ( Hotel School) 78 Galle Road, Colombo 3 The tourism industry in Sri Lanka has reached a stage
- Sri Lanka’s Past Is Prologue For China (Category: Breaking News)
- Why does Sri Lanka need more tourists from China? (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka wants Chinese to follow the Great Admiral (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau, along with the officials of the Sri Lanka Port Authority, welcomed the Carnival PLC luxury cruise liner ‘Arcadia’ with 2,100 tourists onboard yesterday at the Colombo Harbour. The local excursion tour operator Gemini Tours and Travels
- Fleurieu crowds go with the flow (Category: South Australia)
- Going ape (Category: Technology)
- Eastern Eye (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka seeks more Saudi tourists (Category: Breaking News)
We often hear the word ‘crisis’ mentioned in discussion, speeches, orations, in poetry, fiction, articles, cartoons, within corporate board rooms, on strategic plan presentations, broadcasts, narrowcasts, etc. The word assumes even greater weight depending on what adjective is placed before it, such as global crisis, European debt crisis, financial crisis, real estate crisis or a ...
- From Torrington to Independence Square (Category: Business)
- Crisis: Mitigate or manage? (Category: Business)
- Are we facing a rupee crisis? (Category: Business)
- The real technique of time management (Category: Business)
At a ceremony on January 30, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) helped launch Sri Lanka’s first “Tourism Roadside Signage Guidelines.” USAID, the U.S. Government’s development arm, simultaneously released a manual, “Start Your Tourism Business,” designed to assist hospitality sector entrepreneurs. Both publications, develo...
- US govt. supports Lanka’s tourism development (Category: Breaking News)
- USAID support generates jobs and investments (Category: Business)
- US Government grant to support five local organisations’ work with the disabled (Category: Business)
- US Embassy supports further development in Batticaloa (Category: Business)
Following are excerpts from an interview with former President of the Sri Lanka Association of Inbound Tour Operators (SLAITO) and currently Managing Director Aitken Spence Travels Ltd. Gehan Perera Q: The private sector, line ministries and the regulatory bodies involved in tourism agree that the time is right for a long-term strategic plan for Sri ...
- Future of Sri Lanka Tourism: Former SLAITO Chief sheds key insights (Category: Business)
- Developing tourism in Sri Lanka and challenges (Daily News) (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka really experiencing a tourism boom? (Category: Business)
- Maximum benefit of travel fairs not reaped (Category: Business)
‘Sancharaka Udawa’, a one day meeting for all tourism related service providers was held yesterday at the Ceylon Continental Hotel with Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa as Chief Guest. The main objective of this forum is to provide opportunities for those less exposed to mainstream tourism; creating a platform for small and medium service providers ...
- SLAITO introduces ‘Sancharaka Udawa’ (Category: Business)
- Tourism products exhibition opens in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka draws 60,989 tourists in 16 days (Category: Business)
- SANCHARAKA UDAWA 2012 OPENED (Category: Breaking News)
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