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Fourth edition of Lanka Challenge starts 31 Aug

Tue Aug 28 16:34:51 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.13187888

By Cheranka Mendis Some 45 foreigners from 20 nationalities will be traversing the island in three-wheelers starting 31 August taking part in the 12 day Lanka Challenge organised by Large Minority for the fourth consecutive year. An innovative promotion model for Sri Lanka through adventure tourism, Lanka Challenge will take the participants to Jaffna for ...

Thu Aug 16 16:47:05 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.07535936

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 ...

Fri Jun 15 05:01:02 EDT 2012 - itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.18839839

Officials of the Consular Corps London are touring Sri Lanka to have a glimpse of the real situation prevailing in the island. A group of members of the Consular Corps London spread throughout the United Kingdom are on a visit to the island to see to themselves the present situation since the liberation of the ...

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Preparing for winter sails

Thu May 03 16:47:05 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.11303904

By Cheranka Mendis Come winter this year, Sri Lanka will be ready to welcome 4000 up-market tourists from Austria, Germany and Switzerland with the first ever regular cruise liner sailing in to the Colombo Port. The cruise liner, FTI Berlin will make its maiden voyage to this part of the world in December starting off ...

Tue May 01 16:03:32 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.05651952

Sri Lanka spent Rs. 56 b on above-the-line advertising in 2011 Taking wing to India for meetings is a usual routine for any business leader attached to a multinational in Sri Lanka as most such organisations have their regional offices in India. During a recent visit to India, the hype surrounding IPL – 5th edition ...

Tue Mar 27 15:16:45 EDT 2012 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.29489014

Sri Lanka Expo 2012 will kick off from 28 to 31 March at Sirimavo Bandaranayke Memorial Exhibition Centre of BMICH, under the theme ‘Partnering with the Hub of Asia.’ This event will be organised by the Export Development Board. Having foreseen the importance of Expo 2012 to promote Sri Lanka as a destination, Sri Lanka ...

Mon Dec 19 00:41:46 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.15071872

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, one of the world’s largest logistics providers, became an integral part of the South Asian Apparel Leadership Forum 2011. The prestigious forum where global and local apparel heavyweights gathered to discuss the future of Sri Lanka’s apparel industry was organised as a part of SL design festival. Hellmann, an international logistics giant ...

Tue Nov 29 14:25:20 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.06593944

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 ...

Mon Nov 28 16:30:36 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.13187888

Eco-labels get special platform at SLDF 2011 Apparel showSri Lanka’s apparel industry has long been established as a visionary garment maker, through its responsible practices and campaigns like ‘Garments without Guilt’. A key point stressed at the recently concluded ‘South Asian Apparel Leadership Forum’ that affects the future of this influential industry, is the co...

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Looking inward to look outward

Wed Nov 23 13:43:45 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.07535936

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 ...

Tue Nov 15 14:01:16 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.094199196

A leader in Sri Lanka’s hospitality trade, the Mount Lavinia Hotel (MLH) is known throughout the world for its scenic beauty and first-rate services. Although a historic hotel aged beyond two centuries, MLH moves parallel to the 21st century hospitality trade practices and innovations, and its values are very much in par with ethical practices ...

Sat Nov 12 14:13:46 EST 2011 - thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.13187888

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 ...

Thu Nov 10 18:17:46 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.094199196

Coats, which has raised the bar and set industry standards in the area of sewing solutions, has joined hands with Sri Lanka Design Festival to project the many capabilities of the local apparel and fashion industry to the world. In order to share Coats’ global expertise in the apparel vertical integration sector, the company has ...

Tue Nov 08 15:39:35 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.094199196

Range of exhibitions, forums and workshops for students and general public For the third consecutive year, the Sri Lanka Design Festival is preparing to provide South-Asian region with a rare opportunity to witness and learn from the creative talent and expertise of globally renowned creative industry professionals. SLDF 2011 has invited a group of elite ...

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SriLankan Airlines in a new design era

Mon Nov 07 15:03:16 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.11303904

nSriLankan Airlines partners with Sri Lanka Design Festival: launches luxuriously designed flatbed at SLDF this November SriLankan Airlines, Sri Lanka’s national airline, in a bold attempt to enhance its products and services to drive the country’s ongoing boom in tourism and economic development will launch its latest addition: The luxury flatbed on Business Class. Partnering ...

Sun Nov 06 14:19:13 EST 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.13187888

The forum will be held on 18 NovemberThe South Asian Apparel Leadership Forum, conceptualised by Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) as one of its main highlights of 2011, is already participated by apparel manufacturing leaders and their key partners promising to be a great platform and networking opportunity for apparel industry’s backward integration sector and ...

Thu Nov 03 17:50:19 EDT 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.11303904

The South Asian Apparel Leadership Forum, conceptualised by SLDF as one of its main highlights of 2011, is to be held on 18 November and will see many key apparel experts and high profile international press gather to provide their insights on topics that are crucial for Sri Lanka’s campaign to lead South Asian apparel ...

Sun Oct 30 16:09:19 EDT 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.11303904

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ravinatha Aryasinha has said “Belgian tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka grew by 114.5 per cent during the first nine months of 2011” and that “Sri Lanka has become one of the most preferred destinations in Asia for Belgian tourists”. The Ambassador added that: “The number of ...

Tue Oct 18 12:14:51 EDT 2011 - news360.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.50254786

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

Mon Oct 17 15:28:27 EDT 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.13187888

Bollywood cinema’s latest female sensation Ms.Sonakshi Sinha arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday via Sri Lankan Airlines UL 142 at 5.44 a.m. from Mumbai –India for a four- day special promotional assignment in the country. The Bollywood beauty was given a very warm reception on arrival at the BIA, with a traditional welcome dance and greeted ...

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Austere ways to avoid crisis

Wed Oct 05 14:21:23 EDT 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.07535936

I like to be an optimist. No matter what may happen around us, I would like to retain feelings of hope I have for all human-kind and on a more intimate level for you, for me, the newborn and the to-be-born. Yet, what has already happened around me, happening now and may happen in the ...

Sun Aug 21 15:44:38 EDT 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.50254786

The ‘Lanka Challenge 2011’ trishaw race started off in grand style on Saturday 20 August 2011 at 8:30 a.m. from the premises of Tangerine Tree Hotel, Minuwangoda. The competitors kicked off to a solid start, with the official flag-off given by the Acting Director General of Sri Lanka

Wed Aug 17 16:51:28 EDT 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.11303904

A high level delegation from Russian oil and natural gas giant Gazprom led by its Director General Gulev Valeriy this week met Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa at his office in order to discuss investment opportunities, especially in the oil exploration in the Mannar and Cauvery Basin, natural gas market as well as tourism ...

Wed Aug 17 14:50:16 EDT 2011 - www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.50254786

Lanka Challenge 2011: The 12-day rickshaw challenge continues; adds east coast territoryAfter officially captivating the world in 2009 and 2010 through the first and second editions of the Lanka Challenge, Large Minority in partnership with the Sri Lanka Tourism plans to continue their meaningful

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Budget Tourism Promo

Sat Jun 05 07:45:47 EDT 2010 - thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.11303904

I.I.F.A. awards will create the credibility and believability factor,” Dileep Mudadeniya tells Benchmark. “The challenge (to deliver) is much greater than before. We actually anticipated and made preparations for this mini boom. I feel that it’s important when you are running an organisation to anticipate and work on scenario planning so that you have your structure, ...

Fri May 28 20:52:43 EDT 2010 - thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.07535936

By Cassandra Mascarenhas Preparations for the 11th International Indian Film Academy Awards that are to be held in Colombo just next week are going full steam ahead despite all the issues it has faced so far. Protests and picketing by a large number of the Indian Tamil community in India, several celebrities refusing to attend the [...]

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