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Sri Lanka and Seychelles will establish a direct air link between the two countries immediately, enabling increased trade and tourism between the two island nations and neighbouring countries. At the discussion on Tuesday held between the visiting Seychelles President Alix Michel and Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa, it was decided to open up a ...
Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo leads the way in sustainable tourism with a record three consecutive year Green Globe certification. The nationally and internationally awarded five star hotel is the only Sri Lankan hotel to be certified by the premier international sustainability body for a third year. Green Globe is the global travel and tourism industries’ certification ...
Sri Lanka and Poland have agreed to boost bilateral ties including an exchange delegation and special promotion at the upcoming Warsaw Fair 2012. New measures and strong existing ties came up for discussion when the visiting Polish Under Secretary of State for Oriental Policy Jerzy Pomianowski paid a courtesy call on Economic Development Minister Basil ...
The 37th Annual General Meeting of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Sri Lanka Chapter was held recently at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Silver Line Tours Managing Director Shamali De Vaz was elected as the Chairperson of the Chapter for the year 2012-2013. Jetwing Hotels Managing Director Ruan Samarasinghe and Aitken Spence Hotels Head ...
Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa recently hailed the substantial support for socio-economic development in Sri Lanka from Finland. This was emphasised when Finland’s outgoing Ambassador to Sri Lanka Terhi Hakala paid a courtesy call on Minister Rajapaksa. “Finland has generously assisted Sri Lanka over the years in country’s economic and social development drive. It ...
Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo excelled in the 21st National Bartender’s Cocktail and Flaring competition held at the BMICH on the 15th of July 2012. Three talented members of the Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo team went through to represent the hotel in the finals. The finalists wowed judges at the Hotel Show with Chandika Thilakarathna and Dinusha Vilashani ...
The Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL), aimed at being Sri Lanka’s most prestigious, annually-held, domestic Twenty20 cricket competition and featuring the best and upcoming cricketing talent from Sri Lanka playing alongside national Sri Lankan cricketers as well as some of the world’s biggest Twenty20 cricket stars, has made several new announcements. An introduction to the ...
Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo excelled in the 21st National Bartender’s Cocktail and Flaring competition held at the BMICH on 15 July. Three talented members of the Cinnamon Lakeside team went through to represent the hotel in the finals. The finalists wowed judges at the Hotel show with Chandika Thilakarathna and Dinusha Vilashani in the Classical category ...
Tourism industry official cum professional Dileep Mudadeniya in his personal capacity has released a book on Sri Lanka’s hosting of the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) in 2010. Titled ‘IIFA: The Other Side,’ the book in Sinhala, Dileep’s first, recaps the efforts which went in to it, the challenges faced and its success, in ...
The Graduation Ceremony and Membership Investiture of The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Sri Lanka Region was held on Friday 20 July at Waters Edge, Battaramulla. University of Moratuwa Senior Professor Civil Engineering, Malik Ranasinghe was the Chief Guest, while CIM UK Director of Education Anita Stubbs graced the occasion as Guest of Honour. CIM ...
By Cassandra Mascarenhas Being a developing country with a small domestic market of 20 million people, it is imperative for Sri Lanka to look towards exports to achieve high economic growth rates. The restriction of the size of the domestic market imposed through low income levels and small market size does not facilitate domestic producers ...
US based Marriott International said in a statement that it has signed up with Sri Lanka's East West Properties Plc, to open a 200-room hotel in Weligma, in 2014.The 11-storey Weligama Bay Marriott Resort & Spa, will be operated under Marriott's flagship Marriott Hotels & Resorts brand. "Sri Lanka is a destination that has great potential and opportunity and we hope to capitalise...
This is the second edition of the ‘Company Called Sri Lanka’ article range in store and finds it is the most appropriate time to express the marketing strategy for tourism in the backdrop of the Sri Lanka Economic Forum, where they will be arguing about positioning Sri Lanka in the world market. Sri Lanka as ...
Major professional tour golf is set to make its debut in Sri Lanka in August when over 100 top golf professionals tee off at The Royal Colombo Golf Club at The Standard Chartered Open 2012, an event sanctioned by The Professional Golf Tour of India (the “PGTI”) as part of its 2012 schedule. The four ...
Tie-up with East West Properties to see 200-room, 11-storey Weligama Marriott Resort and Space come up in mid 2014Marriott International has announced the signing of an agreement with Weligama Hotel Properties Ltd., a fully-owned subsidiary of East West Properties PLC, to open a hotel in Sri Lanka – the Weligama Marriott Resort & Spa in ...
By Shanuka Tissera Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo last week announced its latest accomplishment as the recipient of the ‘Best Luxury Hotel, Sri Lanka’ award at the Business Destinations 2012 travel awards. The hotel has now entered the ring to do battle with the likes of the Trump Hotel Chicago, Fair Mont Hotel Vancouver and Marina Bay ...
Heritance Ahungalla, one of Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence Group’s deluxe hotels, has employed scores of people and sources supplies from the neighbouring villages as part of the ongoing investment drive to embrace sustainability. More than 65 per cent of the hotel’s staff of 400 have been recruited from the local villages, many of them have ...
Colombo is already a hub of musical activity; from the sounds of the street vendors to late night jamming sessions by lesser-known bands, the city throbs with the beat of vibrant lives. From August 23rd to 27th, the city’s music will take on a decidedly eclectic flavour as the much-awaited “Sense and Soul Colombo Music ...
By Shelton Dharmaratne Changing global trends will continually pose challenges to economic theory and policy and the ways in which we analyse tourism activity. Sri Lanka Tourism’s public policies are trapped in a dynamic, ongoing process and it has become increasingly evident
Brand Finance CEO/Founder David Haigh will deliver the keynote address at the fourth session on ‘Branding Sri Lanka’ at the Sri Lanka Economic Summit to be held from 10 to 12 July. Being a developing country with a small domestic market of 20 million people, it is imperative for Sri Lanka to look towards exports ...
By Cassandra Mascarenhas Sri Lanka has won the bid to host the third Asian Youth Games in 2017 the President of the Asian Olympic Council and the President of the Association of National Olympic Committees Sheikh Ahmed Al-Sabah announced yesterday. Asian Olympic Council President National Olympic Committees Sheikh Ahmed Al-Sabah (centre) addresses the media in ...
Creating opportunities to enhance diplomatic ties in promoting the destination, Sri Lanka Tourism promotion Bureau received a five member delegation from the Consular Corps of London at the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday 11 June for a familiarisation tour in Sri Lanka. The executive
‘The Business of Sports,’ the fortnightly column that appears every other Thursday returns after a festive break. This is Feature #22, continuing to seek a greater public engagement in our national sports and a sporting surveillance on what goes on away from the arenas and behind the scenes. Readers are invited to share their views ...
Fresh push to woo Chinese tourists and tap greater share of two-way traffic, including to Maldives Upgrade brings total flights to four cities in China including Hong Kong to 21 per week By Nisthar Cassim in Beijing, China In a fresh push to woo more Chinese tourists as well as cater to growing two-way traffic, ...
Whilst acknowledging progress, business tycoon Harry Jayawardena has renewed his call for a more enabling environment to boost private sector investments to a desired level, warning that rest of Asia was fast reaping benefits of such strategy. “The region offers many examples of how enabling environments have thrust their private sectors to the forefront of ...
By our Travel Correspondent Tourism industry, or rather the administration, in the paradise isle has gone back to the 2006 era, where the stakeholder associations and the authorities were pulling in different directions. The whole mechanism had fallen to such low levels that it had come to a stage where the chairman of the Tourist ...
Finance Ministry 2011 Annual Report lists key factors Raps promotional agencies BOI, Sri Lanka Tourism, EDB Tea Board and others for bureaucracy and lack of coordination Private investment needs to be increased to 30% of GDP from 24% in 2011 Despite the end of the war three years ago
By Shanuka Tissera The private sector of Sri Lanka and Singapore yesterday in Colombo spearheaded a fresh deal to boost bilateral business on the sidelines of a visit by the city-state’s Foreign Minister. The Singapore Business Federation (SBF), which has brought down a delegation, and the Sri Lanka Singapore Business Council (SLSBC) affiliated to the ...
Wide publicity has been given to the events unfolding at the Sri Lanka Tourism regarding the resignation of the Chairman from Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau, Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management and Sri Lanka Convention Bureau and the performance of the Board of Investment
Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau MD post is a permanent position and comes under scheme of recruitment approved by Treasury Rumy Jauffer hired on one-year contract sans an application or a CV Not marking attendance, unlimited use of fuel among flags-off in Auditor General’s Department query