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“Did you really have to tell the whole world you were in a bad mood?” Kuraishini Navaratne, a friend, e-mailed from Turkey. “It’s the Olympics, man, cheer up!” she admonished. Can the Olympics cheer me up? Tuned into the games to find out. Watching Queenie jump off a helicopter was too much to handle but ...

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Biggest contingent of top Indian corporate leaders in town for the first ever bilateral CEOs Forum and other events as mega India Show kicks off today with Commerce Minister Sharma as Chief Guest By Nisthar Cassim Indian business leaders are rushing to Sri Lanka as the giant neighbour kicks off today what can be described ...

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New York: Muslim tourists globally represent a lifestyle tourism market worth $ 126.1 billion in 2011, and growing at a rate of 4.8 per cent through 2020, compared to global average of 3.8 per cent, a study said. The new ground-breaking study, ‘Global Muslim Lifestyle Travel Market: Landscape & Consumer Needs,’ highlights how airlines, tourism ...

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Presently Sri Lankan software has been exported to regions such as North America, EU, Australasia and East Asia. With the recent global financial slow down, most of the matured software markets are not as vibrant as earlier for the software products and services.  Considering this fact, EDB has identified developing regions of the world as ...

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Every country must have a socioeconomic model for developing the country and achieving sustainable growth and prosperity. The function of a sound model is to transform aspirations into reality by identifying all that needs to be done to achieve the aspirations.   What is prosperity? What do we mean by prosperity for a country? My ...

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THE agreement with the Board of Investment and the joint venture between top firms John Keells Holdings (JKH), Brandix Ltd., and MMBL to start a new domestic air operation will be signed today. Daily FT learns the new operations will be branded as Cinnamon Air, with JKH holding 40% stake in the joint venture and ...

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Motel One, citizenM attract guests with contemporary style Budget hotels grew faster than overall sector in 2011 Established chains Holiday Inn, Ibis refurbish By Victoria Bryan FRANKFURT, (Reuters): Hotelier Dieter Mueller wants to achieve a first by creating an international German hotel chain that proves cheap can be so much more than cheerful in the ...

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The Sri Lanka-Pakistan Business Council held its 19th Annual General Meeting recently. The council was established in 1991 under the aegis of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce with a view to promote trade, investment, tourism and services between the two countries. Merchant Lanka Ltd. Managing Director Rohitha Thilakaratne was elected as the President of SLPBC ...

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The Sri Lanka-France Business Council (SLFBC), which functions under the aegis of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, held its eighth Annual General Meeting at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce recently. The council was inaugurated on 4 February 2004 with a primary objective of promoting trade, investment, tourism and services between Sri Lanka and France and ...

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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 ...

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Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa yesterday found opportunity in a meeting with UK Parliamentarians to woo more investments and trade with British firms. “Many opportunities are available in Sri Lanka in trade and investment for the British business community. The time has come for Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom to build a strong economic ...

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Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles of India Anand Sharma will visit Sri Lanka from 2-5 August 2012, coinciding with the prestigious ‘India Show – Land of Limitless Opportunities’ being organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce from 3-5 August 2012 at the BMICH, Colombo. ‘India Show’ ...

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Reuters: British tourism chiefs hope the Olympics and a global advertising campaign will entice more overseas visitors by 2015 and more than compensate for any short-term losses as the country tries to dig out from a double-dip recession. Tourism Minister John Penrose said the 2012 Olympics had given Britain the chance to re-establish itself as ...

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VB: An industry report has said if Sri Lanka is to benefit from the burgeoning tourism industry, as many as 22,500 hotel rooms will be needed. “Given the growing interest in the hotel industry, we believe the sector is set for buoyant growth underpinned by increased tourist influx and capacity expansion. With the end of ...

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The UK’s Plymouth University, ranked amongst the top10 modern UK universities in the world, announced its partnership with Sri Lanka’s National School of Business Management (NSBM) to a distinguished gathering of academics, diplomats, government dignitaries and educationists. Present for the launch was Plymouth University’s President and Vice Chancellor Wendy Purcell, while the C...

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By Vipula Wanigasekera It was a few weeks following the Enlightenment, Lord Buddha gave his first discourse to the five ascetics whom he had been associated with for over six years. They were Kondañña, Baddiya, Vappa, Mahanama, and Assaji. The first discourse was all about the middle and the Eightfold Path that leads to Enlightenment ...

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The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has announced that PATA Travel Mart 2013 (PTM2013) and PATA Board Meeting will be hosted by the City of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China in September 2013, at its PATA’s Executive Board Meeting on July 28, at the Hotel ICON, in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Martin J Craigs, PATA CEO, revealed ...

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The American Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka will be conducting a career guidance Road show on “Career Opportunities in the Hotel, Travel, Airline and Tourism Industry” on the 7th of August 2012 at the Hilton Colombo from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 Noon. Students/trainees from Schools and Institutions that conduct Hotel, Travel, Airline and Tourism ...

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Amadeus, a leading travel technology partner and transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, last week announced it is opening one of its core technology frameworks – Amadeus ARIA Templates – to the open source community. An industry first, the application framework written in JavaScript is set to revolutionise the way the travel ...

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Thailand-based Centara Hotels and Resorts currently has 55 hotels and resorts in its portfolio, with a mixture of owned and managed properties. In the next five years the company has a target to acquire more than 45 hotel and resort properties with the intention of reaching 100 in 2017. Centara believes its ambitious target to ...

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SriLankan Airlines recently flew a delegation of creative professionals, along with special Sri Lankan made fashion, design and craft exhibits from Colombo to London, to launch the 2012 edition of the Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF). London, positioned as a world creative hub, is also a central business point and home to some of the ...

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I must thank the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management Chairman Chandra Mohotti and the Director General Senaka Wijewardena for inviting me to be the Chief Guest at this graduation ceremony of Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management for 2011. It is a great pleasure for me for four reasons to ...

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LONDON (Reuters): So how does it feel flying halfway round the world from the Maldives and losing your Badminton debut at the Olympics in straight sets? The reaction from Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed was remarkably upbeat, especially as he had fulfilled a boyhood dream only hours earlier by carrying the flag for his tiny Indian Ocean ...

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The famous explorer Marco Poloandnbsp;of the 12thandnbsp;Century wrote that Sri Lanka is the finest island in the whole world. For centuries it had been a great tourism destination particularly for European travellers. However, the 30 year long internal conflict and terrorism had a negative impact of tourism and the growth of the industry got stagnated.

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T20 tourney to take up over 7,000 room nights in lean tourism season; bring in over Rs. 130 m revenue for hotels Destination Sri Lanka to get a fillip via global TV coverage The inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL), ready to kick off in two weeks’ time, is expected to give a big boost ...

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Abdul Rahims came in as a Silver Sponsor for the recently-concluded Hotel Show 2012, held at the BMICH. Abdul Rahims has been a leading supplier for the hospitality industry over the years. Here (from left), Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority Chairman Dr. Nalaka Godahewa, Abdul Rahims Managing Director Bary Jaleel and Abdul Rahims Chairman Ruzly ...

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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 ...

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 Mulls PPP model for new initiative Sri Lanka’s entry into the hydrogen fuel era is to be kicked-off in October. And adoption of PPP model is being mulled. “The forthcoming Hydrogen and Renewable Energy conference in Colombo to be held in October is also the first step in formulating Sri Lanka’s hydrogen road-map. Our second ...

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Some guys have all the luck. Some guys have all the pain. Some guys get all the breaks. Some guys do nothing but complain… the immortal words of Jeff Fortgang resonate in my wondering mind. To be or not to be, the Bard sums up the mood of the islanders, excepting, of course, the guys ...

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The Foreign Minister of Pakistan Hina Rabbani Khar will be visiting Sri Lanka from 1st to 3rd August, 2012, at the invitation of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris. During her three day visit, Hina Rabbani Khar will call on the President of the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa and will also ...

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