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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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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
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. .
This reporter, on a bus ride from from Kollupitiya, en route to an assignment at the World Trade Centre (WTC) on Monday, saw soldiers, stationed on the seaside of Galle Road, with their guns pointing towards the roads and buildings, including at some hotels that way. I don’t know whether a similar scene was enacted ...
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By Srilal Miththapala Just over a year ago, I penned an article entitled “Sri Lanka Tourism — Quo Vadis” where I raised the issues and challenges Sri Lanka was facing in developing its tourism industry. Of course, that was during the latter stages of the war, and now after the ending of the war, there ...
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M.R.’s goal of 2.5 mn. tourists by 2016 The country’s major hotel operators have planned to build hotel rooms meeting only 6 percent of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s target of getting 2. 5 million tourists by 2016. Hiran Cooray, Chairman Jetwing Group, one of the country’s leading hotel investors, in response to a question, told participants ...
- Crisis-hit Sri Lanka aims for USD800 mln from tourism; India-led revival advised (Category: Breaking News)
- Prema Cooray appointed Chairman of Reefcomber (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism tells govt. not to put cart before horse (Category: Breaking News)
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By Paneetha Ameresekere – Business Editor The stock market has been trying to tap Singapore for investments by organizing investment seminars there is in the past, similarly, it may also be worthwhile for Sri Lanka Tourism (S.L.T.) to try to break in to this cash rich market
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Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals continued its upward trend in May with 35,213 foreign visitors in the usually off-season month, officials from Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) said on Sunday. Dileep Mudadeniya, Managing Director of SLTPB told reporters that for the first five months of 2010
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals continued its upward trend in May with 35,213 foreign visitors in the usually off-season month, officials from Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) said on Sunday. Dileep Mudadeniya, Managing Director of SLTPB told reporters that for the first five months of 2010
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals continued its upward trend in May with 35,213 foreign visitors in the usually off-season month, officials from Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) said on Sunday. Dileep Mudadeniya, Managing Director of SLTPB told reporters that for the first five months of 2010
Sri Lanka's hotel owners are racing to refurbish and add thousands more rooms as foreign holidaymakers pour into the...
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