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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 ...
- Seychelles President in town today (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka shipbuilding hub for Seychelles - Direct air-links being explored (Category: Business)
- Lanka Seychelles to share experiences for economic development (Category: Breaking News)
- Seychelles Foreign Minister visiting the island (Category: Breaking News)
As a Hilton Colomboandrsquo;s Blue Energy Community initiative, 20 scholarships were awarded to The Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism andamp; Hotel Management re-entry students for four Basic Level courses during the International Youth Week - 12 to 18 August.
Following are excerpts of the address by A/Plnr Deshabandu Surath Wickramasinghe, President of the Chamber of Construction Industry, Sri Lanka, at the Colombo School of Technology Graduation: I am pleased to be present as the Chief Guest at the first Graduation Ceremony of 30 HND Graduates who will receive their Diplomas. The Colombo School of ...
- Ceylon Institute of Builders to organise Construction Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
- CIOB to host ‘Global Challenges’ in Construction International Symposium (Category: Business)
- Manpower snag to hit mega construction projects (Category: Business)
- CONSTRUCT 2012 in Colombo in August (Category: Business)
Aims to become Colombo’s leading sustainable city hotel by 2015 By Cassandra Mascarenhas Further incorporating sustainability into their processes and business and working towards enhancing the environmental performance of the hotel, the Cinnamon Grand in association with the Switch-Asia programme hosted a ‘green forum’ yesterday in order to enlighten a group of key stakeholders ...
- Switch-Asia to host tourism sustainability seminar (Category: Business)
- Towards Sustainable Business Practices (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka launches tourism think tank (Category: Business)
With the generous support of the American people through the US Agency for International Development, Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) is implementing the US $24 million VEGA/BIZ+ program in Sri Lanka. The program’s main focus is on expanding livelihood opportunities that can enhance economic productivity, boosting household incomes in former conflict areas and promoting ...
- Sri Lanka to celebrate World Tourism Day tomorrow (Category: Business)
- Combined publicity blitz for Sri Lanka tourism still not 100% ready (Category: Business)
- US notes importance of Sri Lanka switching to solar energy (Category: Breaking News)
It was an evening of celebration at the recently held inaugural graduation ceremony of the Travel Agents’ Association of Sri Lanka (TAASL) in association with the SriLankan Airlines’ International Aviation Academy (IAA). Earlier this year, IAA, the training centre of the national carrier was appointed as the exclusive training partner for TAASL. Under this ...
- SriLankan Airlines’ IAA completes first training program for TAASL member agents (Category: Business)
- TAASL and IATA partner to develop HR in aviation (Category: Business)
- UL’s aviation training arm ventures in to Maldives (Category: Business)
- IAA looks at capacity expansion (Category: Business)
Heritance Ayurveda Maha Gedara emerged the most energy efficient hotel in Sri Lanka by winning the highest accolade awarded in the large scale hotel sector at the Sri Lanka National Energy Efficiency Awards 2012 which concluded recently. This is the second consecutive year that Aitken Spence Hotels has been recognised at the awards. Last year ...
- Heritance Ayurveda Maha Gedara, first Lankan hotel to be net metered (Category: Business)
- Aitken Spence Hotels receives Energy Efficiency Awards again (Category: Travel)
- MLH Avurudu Maha Gedara Kavili Kade 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Lassana Gedara - 14th September 2014 - www.LankaChannel.lk (Category: Video)
Sri Lanka has achieved excellent results in its demining program and country can complete demining process very soon in continuing the present institutional setup and machinery said United Nation’s Resident Representative in Sri Lanka Subine Nandy participating in the progress review meeting of the National Mine Action Program of Sri Lanka. The meeting was held ...
- Sri Lanka can wrap-up demining soon - UN Resident Representative (Category: Breaking News)
- UN commends Sri Lanka's de-mining programme (Category: Breaking News)
- UN commends Sri Lanka's de-mining programme (Category: Breaking News)
- Progress on demining operations in war-torn North and East commendable - BHC (Category: Breaking News)
Brand Finance’s Annual Global Nation Brand Analysis Prologue Over the past three years, nation branding has received an enormous amount of coverage in Sri Lankan newspapers. Whilst some of these are based on the need to provide a marketing approach to building a nation, and its brand; many of the articles focus on developing a ...
- Brand Finance launches Nation Brands 100 (Category: Business)
- Brand ‘Sri Lanka’ valued $ 23 b; ranks 76th globally (Category: Business)
- Branding Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
As a Hilton Colombo’s Blue Energy Community initiative, 20 scholarships were awarded to The Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management re-entry students for four Basic Level courses during the International Youth Week which takes place from 12 to 18 August. Hilton Colombo celebrates their 25 years of service excellence, continuing to be the ...
- Hilton Colombo lends support to WWF earth hour (Category: Breaking News)
- Hilton Colombo in Sri Lanka and owners up in arms against Hilton Worldwide (Category: Breaking News)
- Colombo Hilton taken over by Government. (Category: Breaking News)
- First DoubleTree by Hilton Resort opens in Weerawila (Category: Breaking News)
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 ...
- Cinnamon Lakeside first Green Globe re-certified Sri Lankan hotel (Category: Business)
- Bentota Beach Hotel is Green Globe certified (Category: Business)
- Green Globe Certification convenes fourth annual summit (Category: Business)
- ‘I will be Green’ ensures five Green Globe certifications for JKH Hotels (Category: Business)
The Mahindra Sri Lanka Premier League is set to bring life to the city of Kandy, with the Pallekele leg of the matches beginning on Friday 17 August, with the encounter between Wayamba and Uva kicking off the proceedings. Somerset Entertainment Ventures Chairman Sandiip Bhammer said, “We are excited about the eight matches set to ...
- Murali cricket stadium (Category: Breaking News)
- Rain in Sri Lanka hill country forces ICC to move World Cup warm-up matches from Pallekele (Category: Breaking News)
- President inspects Pallekele Stadium ahead of World Cup (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Police bans banners, musical instruments at World Cup venue (Category: Breaking News)
Both governments to double bilateral trade to USD 10 billion by 2015 The High Commission of India and the Indian expatriate community in Sri Lanka celebrated the 66th Independence Day of India yesterday at the India House in Colombo. Indian High Commissioner Ashok K. Kantha hoisted the Indian national flag, which was followed by ...
- Indo-Lanka bilateral trade up 70% to record $ 5 b in 2011 (Category: Business)
- India celebrates 65th Independence Day (Category: Business)
- Indian expatriate community celebrate 63rd Republic Day (Category: Breaking News)
- India’s 63rd Republic Day celebrated in Colombo (Category: Business)
For travellers who wish to taste the exotic without relinquishing the comforts of home, the UAE is a melting pot of the old and the new; an incongruous blend of towering real estate projects and the gentle sway of camel rides under star-spangled skies. The discerning traveller has a mind boggling range of experiences to ...
- Garagistes Tassie's best (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Tiger hit on no-fly notice (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- LIST: Top ten Brisbane restaurants (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Sri Lanka, a destination for 2012 - Conde Nast Traveller (Category: Breaking News)
Appoints Ideal Favourite Aviation as local distributor GippsAero, the Australian based manufacturer of the GA8Airvan utility aircraft, and a subsidiary of India’s Mahindra Aerospace, has announced the appointment of a marketing, sales and service representative for Sri Lanka. Terry Miles, CEO of GippsAero said, “We are pleased to partner with the Ideal Group and Favourite ...
- Forays into aerospace with Favourite Group (Category: Business)
- Mahindra Group ventures into two-wheelers; eyes more growth (Category: Business)
- Unique online resource centre launched (Category: Business)
- Flying Potential (Category: Business)
Point of view By a market participant The investors were compelled to wait nearly 17 years to reap the benefit of a real bull run in 2009 after the elimination of the LTTE terrorism and how the SEC destroyed it within a one-and-a-half year period due to ill conceived, irresponsible decisions is well known and ...
- Real potential of the Colombo stock market (Category: Business)
- Bourse boom awaits boosted brokers after Presidential forum (Category: Business)
- Brokers delighted by talk, lunch with President (Category: Business)
- More about the real potential of the stock market (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka and Swaziland Tuesday signed an agreement on Economic, Commercial and Technical Cooperation between the two countries following bilateral discussions held between Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the visiting King Mswati III of Swaziland. King Mswati III accompanied by Queen Inkhosikati LaMahlangu and his delegation arrived in the island yesterday for a three-day ...
- Sri Lanka, Swaziland leaders hold bilateral discussions, sign agreement (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, Swaziland leaders hold bilateral talks, sign agreements (Category: Business)
- King of Swaziland in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Banquet hosted in honour of King of Swaziland (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka and Swaziland Tuesday signed an agreement on Economic, Commercial and Technical Cooperation between the two countries following bilateral discussions held between Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the visiting King Mswati III of Swaziland. King Mswati III accompanied by Queen Inkhosikati LaMahlangu and his delegation arrived in the island yesterday for a three-day ...
- Sri Lanka, Swaziland leaders hold bilateral discussions, sign agreement (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri lanka, Swaziland sign bilateral agreements (Category: Business)
- King of Swaziland in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Banquet hosted in honour of King of Swaziland (Category: Breaking News)
Tourist Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) President Anura Lokuhetty has welcomed the Mahindra Sri Lanka Premier League as a boost for tourism industry. “Sri Lanka requires this kind of event to create awarenessand a good image of the country as a destination,” Lokuhetti said. “Therefore, we always welcome events that will generate revenue, especially ...
- Mahindra eyes on Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Interest (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to get investments from India`s Mahindra vehicle group (Category: Breaking News)
- Vehicle Market (Category: Business)
It was an evening of celebration at the recently held inaugural graduation ceremony of the Travel Agents’ Association of Sri Lanka (TAASL) in association with the SriLankan Airlines’ International Aviation Academy (IAA). Earlier this year, IAA, the training centre owned and operated by the human resources division of the national carrier was appointed as the ...
- SriLankan Airlines’ IAA completes first TAASL member agent training program (Category: Business)
- TAASL and IATA partner to develop HR in aviation (Category: Business)
- UL’s aviation training arm ventures in to Maldives (Category: Business)
- IAA looks at capacity expansion (Category: Business)
The Travel Agents Association of Sri Lanka (TAASL), an affiliate of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, organised a training program for the membership of the association which was conducted by the International Aviation Academy (IAA) of Sri Lankan Airlines Ltd. The four-day training program was carried out in three batches. The objective of this program ...
- VA program provides opportunities to start a career in farming (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- VA program provides opportunities to start a career in farming (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
- VA program provides opportunities to start a career in farming (Category: USA, Maine)
- VA program provides opportunities to start a career in farming (Category: USA, Iowa)
Becomes first international brand outside of ColomboBy Shanuka Tissera With the partnership of SINO Lanka Hotels Holdings (Pvt) Limited, Kandy Hotels Co. PLC and with ONYX Hospitality Group, construction is underway on Hotel OZO in Kandy. The ONYX Group is the largest civil engineering company in South East Asia with turnover of over $2 billion ...
- Onyx Hospitality Group dives into Sri Lankan market (Category: Breaking News)
- Onyx breaks ground on Ozo Chaweng Samui (Category: Business)
- Thailand’s Onyx Hospitality to make Sri Lanka a key hub for its operations (Category: Breaking News)
Out of a total exhibitors of 125, over 100 exhibitors from India are participating in Sri Lanka’s first ever B2B International Plastics Exhibition – Sri Lanka Plast 2012, which will be inaugurated by Senior Minister of International Monetary Cooperation Dr. Sarath Amunugama and Indian High Commissioner Ashok K. Kantha on 10 August. Sri Lanka Plast ...
- First-ever international plastics exhibition next month (Category: Business)
- Different Obligations (Category: Business)
- Mega ‘India Show’ in August 2012 to boost bilateral trade with Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Sri Lanka President sends condolences to Poland (Category: Breaking News)
- Past Cannot Be Forgotten (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka-Poland Biz Council to boost bilateral ties (Category: Business)
- Secretary Defence meets Polish officials (Category: Business)
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 ...
- PATA Awards Leading Travel Professionals (Category: Business)
- Jeyam Perumal appointed to DFCC Board (Category: Business)
- Institute of Hospitality SL chapter Chairman’s Annual Black Tie Dinner on 29 Nov. (Category: Business)
- Institute of Hospitality SL chapter organises Chairman’s Annual Black Tie Dinner (Category: Business)
In the upbeat atmosphere of the post-high level Indian trade push on Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan business community and CEOs are now upbeat on the dawning new biz prospects. Fresh initiatives by the high-level Indian business delegation to Sri Lanka led by Indian Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles Anand Sharma saw announcements of ...
- More Lankan CEOs queuing for India (Category: Business)
- Indian Commerce & Industry Minister here today (Category: Breaking News)
- India calling (Category: Business)
The country has entered into an era that was not witnessed for past 25 years. Growth rates of the economy cannot even be compared during this period as the ground situation in micro terms have changed drastically that was never before during a quarter of a century. The volatility and events of macro factors make ...
- Economic growth to rebound in 2013: SCB (Category: Business)
- Economic Outlook: A tough year ahead but measures in right direction (Category: Business)
- OPIC funding to provide opportunities for growth (Category: Business)
- 2012 Budget in focus (Category: Business)
By Martin Roll The last decade has seen cities, islands and countries aggressively branding themselves in order to create a resonating identity among stakeholders and build sustainable lifetime customer relationships. Country branding refers to a process in which a country claims a distinct positioning in the minds of its citizens, global customers and stakeholders. To ...
- Branding Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Unilever beats local blue chips in preferred employers’ survey (Category: Business)
Ever since the first aircraft was conceptualised by Leonardo Da Vinci, the dream of flight is still continuously evolving. The latest aircraft is known as the dream liner Boeing 787. There has been no end to the technological advances in aviation. The global aviation industry has since been enlarged into a multibillion dollar business and ...
- Etihad gets first Boeing 747-400 freighter (Category: Business)
- Boeing sees more 787 cancellations, still upbeat (Category: Business)
- Spotlight turns to output as Boeing wins show (Category: Business)
- Emirates receives 1,000th Boeing 777 (Category: Business)
BANGKOK: Collective international arrivals into Asia Pacific1 destinations grew by 4% year-on-year during April 2012, according to preliminary data released last week by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). In percentage growth terms, this result was relatively constrained across the region compared to the robust expansion achieved during the first quarter of the year. A ...
- Asia Pacific visitor arrivals up 3% in May (Category: Business)
- Asia dominates in Asia Pacific tourism boom – PATA (Category: Business)
- Asia Pacific tourism records 6% growth in 2011 – PATA (Category: Business)
- Asia Pacific tourism arrivals up 7% in July: PATA (Category: Business)
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