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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 ...
Another luxury hotel complex will be opened in Colombo for the tourists by next year, thus becoming a massive strength for the speedy development taking place in the tourism industry.Construction work on the Hyatt Regency Colombo Hotel which was launched by a private establishment in the year 2003 was interrupted on several occasions. As a ...
Sri Lanka’s NDB bank has initiated a program to help the country’s youths gain required qualification to find jobs in the growing tourism industry. Under its “Jeevana’ Livelihood Development Program” an initiative aimed at developing entrepreneurship across the Island, NDB has already provided training for three groups of youths selected from rural areas on hotel operations. The ...
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...
Following is a report compiled by Hotelnewsnow.com highlighting some of the upcoming new hotel projects and renovation of existing ones in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s tourism sector saw a massive growth after the end of the war in 2009 with the arrival numbers reaching record levels. This prompted local hotel operators to either expand or renovate their ...
While across the globe the 100th anniversary of the Titanic which sank on its maiden voyage, is being remembered today, Belfast is counting on a new visitor attraction about the iconic ship to put the city that built it back on the tourist map, AFP reported The Northern Irish capital hopes the Titanic Belfast complex will entice holidaymakers to spend time -- and, crucially, money -- i...
The exchange rate (ER) last week had the dubious distinction of making a steep dive to hit Rs. 130 by being depreciated by nearly Rs. 5 against the US dollar ($) in a week in interbank trading on the back of import demand, but since then has seemingly been tenuously holding on to those levels ...
After 30 years of violence, northern Sri Lanka is opening up to tourism Saying I’m going on holiday to Sri Lanka elicits one of two reactions from my friends. There’s the ooh-elephants-temples-cocktails-at-sunset-lucky-you! brigade. And then there are my friends who read the newspapers. “Which beach did you say you’re staying on?” emails a friend. “The one where ...
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 and provides the user information on hotels, restaurants, ...
Maalu Maalu Resort & Spa, a tourism resort set up in the east with the boom of tourism after the end of terrorism in 2009, hosted its first wedding on 18th February 2012 at the pristine Passekudah beach, in the East Coast of Sri Lanka. This was the first of its kind held in this ...
Derana Miss Sri Lanka for Miss World Pushpika De Silva has won the award for the Best National Costume at the Miss Tourism Queen International 2011 currently underway in Xian, China. She has also been chosen to the top 20 in the competition.
Sri Lankan Government has given permission to set up 35 five star hotels across the country, said a media report. According to the report, the Government has approved setting up of eleven five star hotels in Colombo and another 24 in outstation areas. Minister Basil Rajapaksa has said, out of the 24 five star hotels that will ...
‘Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days, Where Destiny with men for Pieces plays Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one in the Closet lay” -Omar Khayyam .The Rubaiyat This column dedicated to the notion of making Sri Lanka the Wonder of Asia turns its spotlight today on the cancer of casinos and gambling ...
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 ...
Sri Lank's war victorious army is on the lookout for prime land in Colombo to build a star class hotel, accommodating to the needs of the countries booming tourism industry.
Cricket stadiums handed over to the military Three of Sri Lanka’s international cricket stadiums , including the newly built stadiums in Pallekele and Hambantota, have been handed over to the military indefinitely because Sri Lanka Cricket is unable to afford the maintenance costs. The navy will look after Pallekelle stadium, the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo by ...
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 life style magazine L`Officiel and later do ...
Construction begins on 4-Star, 200-Room Airport Hotel in Hambantota By Faraz Shauketaly The latest addition to the Greater Hambantota Development Plan starts its construction on Monday. The yet to be named, 4-Star, 200-Roomed Mattala Airport Hotel begins construction tomorrow and is expected to be completed by the end of 2012 – to coincide with the ...
Deputy Economic Development Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena says activities have been organized in the Beira Lake area in Colombo to mark World Tourism Day. Abeywardena has said the events would be held on September 27th and 28th around the Beira Lake. Among the event planned are an art wall with the participation of 2,000 children ...
The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority is positive about the China Aviation Technology Import-Export Corporation's (CATIC) five star hotel project which is expected to be launch by the end of thi .....
By Ravi Perera Normal or Western? That was the standard question at touristy places then. Normal stood for poor quality, non-AC rooms, no cutlery, squatting toilet, food with a lot of curry stuff and so on. Abnormal or Western meant an up-grade. Generally, anything local fell into the category of normal. I discovered that even ...
Sri Lanka Tourism Awards 2010 organized by the Sri Lanka Tourism and the Ministry of Economic Development was held at the Waters Edge Hotel Battaramulla, last evening (27) with the participation of the Deputy Minster of Economic Development, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena as the chief guest.
By M.S.Shah Jahan Super slim Kate-Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, 29, the princess-to-be has a worry over her engagement ring with Ratnapura sapphire. Kate has slimmed down so much that she had to shrink her famous engagement ring to fit her finger...
Germany’s biggest tour operator says Sri Lanka is the Real Tourism Star in Asia. Rewe Touristik, has identified Sri Lanka as the “real star” in Asia’s boom in tourism prompting it to step up focus and investments. Rewe Touristik, formerly LTU-Touristik, is the biggest German tour operator to the Far East. Given the post-war rebound ...
Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor, proudly and justly proclaimed: ‘I found Rome built of brick; I leave it clad in marble.’ Most potentates and rulers in contemporary times — great and potty — entertain such Caesarian visions. Though cities ‘clothed in marble’ are not possible to be built even in Western capitals during these ...
by Darini Rajasingham Senanayake On 4 February, Sri Lanka celebrated its 63rd birthday. After nearly three decades of armed conflict, it is now one of Southasia’s calmest and fastest-growing countries. Its social indicators, apart from the northeast zone, remain the...
500 acres of prime land at Kuchchaveli in the Trincomalee district of the Eastern Province are to be sold for 90 million US dollars (10 billion Sri Lankan rupees) by the tourism authority of the occupying Sri Lanka to 5-Star hotel entrepreneurs, according to media reports from Colombo. The one-off payment is for 99 years lease, at the rate of 20 million rupees per acre land, lankabusinessonline .....
The concept of providing lodging houses for tourists is being launched to facilitate tourists. Deputy Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said that this programme would be instrumental in providing the economic benefits to the people. He said that the aim of the government is to make tourism a people’s industry. The number of rooms available for ...
Sri Lanka will soon get a Seven Star Hotel. Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Board said the new hotel will be constructed in addition to the seven five star tourist hotels in the country. Chairman of the Tourism Board Nalaka Godahewa said that 2011 is a significant year for tourism in Sri Lanka. A ...
Hong Kong-based leisure group Shangri-La has signed a deal to acquire land to build a seven-star hotel in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, the chairman of the tourism authority Nalaka...