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Sri Lanka has appointed Dr. Nalaka Godahewa as the new Chairman of the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission. This was confirmed to News360.lk by Deputy Secretary to the Treasury S. R. Attygalle. Apart from the latest position Godahewa is currently holding the Chairmanship of the Sri Lanka
- Plans afoot to distribute school text books (Category: Breaking News)
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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 ...
- Highest number of All Island Cocktail Competition qualifiers from Cinnamon Lakeside (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Lakeside grabs highest number of awards at cocktail competition finals (Category: Business)
- Top hotels sweep World Spice Food Festival awards (Category: Business)
- Overwhelming response to IBM FORUM event hosted in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
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...
- Marriott Debuts in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Marriott International to open its first Sri Lankan hotel in 2014 (Category: Breaking News)
- Eastern Beaches (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Tourism industry has recovered strongly since war ended - Yahoo Total Travel (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourism industry has recovered strongly since war ended - Yahoo Total Travel (Category: Breaking News)
- US withdraws Lanka travel warning (Category: Breaking News)
- US withdraws Lanka travel warning (Category: Breaking News)
Travel trade fair ITB Berlin kicked off on Wednesday (07) in the German capital with another record participation of some 10,644 exhibitors from 187 countries. Some 170,000 delegates and visitors are expected to attend the five-day event.
Sri Lanka Tourism today launched the first tourism information kiosk at the Bandaranaike International airport. The kiosks will operate initially in eight languages and provides the tourist information on Sri Lanka at a click of a button. The kiosks have been developed by Intelo Networks (Pvt) Ltd
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Almost three years after a stubborn insurgency was brought to a bloody but conclusive end, Sri Lanka’s tourism industry is booming as international leisure travelers and hospitality industry operators alike take a new look at this enchanting island nation.
Almost three years after a stubborn insurgency was brought to a bloody but conclusive end, Sri Lanka’s tourism industry is booming as international leisure travelers and hospitality industry operators alike take a new look at this enchanting island nation.
The new visa processing system implemented from January 1 this year has found that there were a ‘considerable’ number of visitors obtaining on-arrival visas. Immigration Controller Chulananda Perera told the Sunday Times that it had been observed that a considerable number of applicants preferred to obtain on-arrival visas. In this respect, there are currently three counters provided a...
Sri Lanka says, currently 197 hotel projects are underway in the country which once completed will add 12,579 hotel rooms to the local tourism industry. According to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Shangri-La, Sheraton, Hyatt and Sun City are among the international hotel chains that have entered the local tourism industry to start tourism ventures. The ...
- Leisure Stock (Category: Business)
- Tourist arrivals up by 46% (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka gets World Bank loans to support Small and Medium Enterprises and tourism (Category: Breaking News)
- Hotel Hopes (Category: Business)
COLOMBO (Reuters) - South Africa's Sun City resort will invest $800 million in a tourism project in Sri Lanka, the head of the island nation's state-run Tourism Board said on Friday. Sun City resort is run by South African gaming and hotels group Sun International Ltd. It will be the largest ever investment in the country's leisure sector, which is booming since the end of a 25-year war in May ...
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(Srilankamirror) - Sri Lanka Tourism welcomed the arrival of the 800,000th tourist in the year 2011 at the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake today (Dec. 19). This is the first time ever the tourism industry has received number of arrivals exceeding 800,000
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Achieving another remarkable milestone in the country’s booming tourism industry, Sri Lanka Tourism welcomed the arrival of 800,000th tourist in year 2011 at the Bandaranaike International Airport today (19th Dec.) evening, Sri Lanka tourism said in a press statement. This is the first time
- Highest number of tourist arrivals in Dec. 2011 (Category: Breaking News)
- India, a leading source market - TDA report (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka welcomes 750,000th tourist for 2011 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka exceeds tourism goal for the year (Category: Breaking News)
Achieving another remarkable milestone in the country’s booming tourism industry, Sri Lanka Tourism welcomed the arrival of 800,000th tourist in year 2011 at the Bandaranaike International Airport today (19th Dec.) evening. This is the first time ever; the tourism industry has received
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- Even in tough economy, Seattle tourism continues to thrive (Category: USA, Washington)
Achieving another remarkable milestone in the country’s booming tourism industry, Sri Lanka Tourism welcomed the arrival of 750,000th tourist in year 2011 at the Bandaranaike International Airport today (24th Nov.) evening.
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 ...
- SriLankan Airlines in a new design era (Category: Business)
- Coats Thread partners Design Festival 2011 (Category: Business)
Oct 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Ministry of Economic Development together with Sri Lanka Tourism has organized an international forum on Community Based Sustainable Tourism to be held today.
World famous Marketing Guru Prof. Philip Kotler arrives in Sri Lanka on a visit. Prof. Kotler arrived at the Katunayake International Airport this morning. His visit is organized by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing. Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Dr. Nalaka Godahewa accorded a warm welcome
- Marketing guru Prof. Kotler arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Asian Marketing Guru becomes Honorary Fellow of SLIM while Japan takes on AMF Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
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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
- Eastern Eye (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka seeks more Saudi tourists (Category: Breaking News)
- Room Demand (Category: Business)
- Beyond Beach (Category: Business)
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
“What hurts me is that the panel has failed to recognize the immense steps the government has taken to bring peace and reconciliation, matched with development, to the north and north-east of the country that not too long ago was controlled with an armed fist by the LTTE states Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.Within the first 12 months of the war ending we even re-settled over 350,00 displac...
- As Sri Lanka General Silva At UN Peacekeeping Signing, War Crimes Questions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka rights panel hands report to UN chief (Category: Breaking News)
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A team of tourism officials headed by Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau (SLTPB) Acting Managing Director Malraj Kiriella welcomed the 250,000th tourist at the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday. The guest Ronke Noordhuis a Dutch national, accompanied by his wife Inge and three sons
Sri Lanka Tourism has lined up a series of attractive programs and activities to provide information on future plans and promotions on Sri Lankan products, services as well as hotel, tourism and recreational facilities for domestic and international tourists attending the "Deyata Kirula" national
Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau, organized a special ceremony at the Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake to welcome the first tourists coming in 2011.
2011 is Tourism Year. The first group to arrive in the island today was accorded a warm welcome. Many plans have been prepared under the theme “Commemorating the 2011 Tourism Year”. 2011 was declared Tourism year under the guidance of the President for the progress of the Tourism industry. The main target of the promotion ...
- Travel Trade (Category: Business)
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- Highest number of tourist arrivals in Dec. 2011 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Tourism Wild poster wins top UNWTO award (Category: Breaking News)
Marking a remarkable historical moment, Sri Lanka Tourism celebrated the targeted 600,000 tourist arrivals on Friday.Tourism officials headed by Sri Lanka Tourism Chairman Dr. Nalaka Godahewa welcomed the guest at the Bandaranaike International Airport when he touched down.
A high level delegation from Sri Lanka Tourism is currently attending the World Tourism Conference in Kota-Kinabalu in Malaysia. Deputy Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena met the World Tourism Organisation Secretary General Dr. Taleb Rifai during the conference. They discussed avenues to develop
- Dy Minister Lakshman Yapa attends World Tourism Conference in Malaysia (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to host UNWTO meetings (Category: Breaking News)
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- International Tourism Conference inaugurated in Sri Lanka capital (Category: Breaking News)
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 ...
- Police probe possible mechanical issues in TTC crash (Category: Canada, Ontario)
- TTC driver charged over crash with vehicles, coffee shop (Category: Canada, Ontario)
- GoSun Flow and Brew at CES 2021 purify water and make coffee using only solar power - CNET (Category: Technology)
- GoSun Flow and Brew at CES 2021 purify water and make coffee using only solar power - CNET (Category: Technology)
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 ...
- How tourism yield can be suitably incorporated into the sustainability paradigm (Category: Business)
- Warm welcome for record-breaking 800,000th tourist arrival in 2011 (Category: Business)
- Tourism: Fast growth or slow burn? (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka Tourism (S.L.T.) plans to market its annual spice festival overseas, an official told reporters on Friday. The war may probably have had been a constraining factor in the past to market the same abroad, S.L.T. Director Upali de Silva said. This festival, sponsored by HSBC, will be held
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