Category: Tourism

Mar 09, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 16.7 percent to 165,541 in February 2015 from a year earlier with a surge in tourist arrivals from China, data from the state tourism promotion office showed. In the past two months of 2015 tourist arrivals were up 11.6 percent to 321,787. Arrivals from China […]

Feb 16, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 6.6 percent to 156,246 in January 2015 from a year earlier, driven by China, Russia, India and United Kingdom, data from the state tourism promotion office showed. South Asian visitors were up 14.6 percent to 28,392 compared to the same month last year supported by […]

Dec 04, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 9.4 percent to 119,727 in November 2014 from a year earlier, driven by China and India, data from the state tourism promotion office showed.Middle Eastern visitors were down 10.5 percent to 4,327 with arrivals from Saudi Arabis up 48.0 percent to 1,328 and UAE down […]

Nov 07, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 13.6 percent to 121,576 in October 2014 from a year earlier, driven by India, UK and China data from the state tourism promotion office showed. Visitors from Western Europe were up 10.1 percent 32,061 in the month with UK up 2.7 percent and Germany up […]

Nov 05, 2014 (LBO)-Sri Lanka’s Browns Hotel and Resorts private limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Browns Investments Plc recently signed a definitive agreements with Starwood Hotels & Resorts which will give Starwood the management rights to five-star Sheraton Kosgoda Turtle Beach Resort, owned by Browns Hotels and Resorts. The 172 room hotel is set […]

Oct 23, 2014 (LBO) – The Tourist Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) has elected as its president Hiran Cooray, Chairman of Jetwing Hotels, a tour operator with a chain of hotels that’s also promoting eco-tourism in a big way. Now we are playing and batting on a smooth wicket and it is wonderful to […]

Oct 10, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Eastern province, is to be promoted as a world-class natural and cultural destination by National Geographic Maps, to improve the contribution of tourism to local economic growth by promoting geo tourism. Geo tourism is a form of tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a destination’s […]

Oct 06, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 16.8 percent to 105,535 in September 2014 from a year earlier, driven by India and China, data from the state tourism promotion office showed. Western European visitors are strong in the northern hemisphere winter season and when Sri Lanka’s Western coast is sunny and calm […]

Sep 30, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Lanka Orix Leasing Company Leisure, a hotel company rebranded as Brown Hotels and Resorts, Brown Investment PLC said in a media release. LOLC will continue to be the holding company for the Browns group, the company said in the media release. LOLC Leisure is the controlling shareholder of […]

Sep 24, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Anilana Hotels and Properties Limited is to issue 109,624,114 ordinary shares for its shareholders to raise money to settle an existing debt and to finance the balance construction of a hotel project in Dambulla Sri Lanka, the company said in a Colombo Stock Exchange announcement. The rights issue […]

September 19, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka to push medical tourism in order to support the 20 billion dollars export target in year 2020 an official of Export Development Board said. EDB, which strongly believes in private public partnership approach, has decided to make the first ever national initiative to rally the healthcare providers as […]

September 08, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 13.8 percent to 140,319 in August 2014 from a year earlier, driven by China and India, data from the state tourism promotion office showed.Middle Eastern visitors were up 16.0 percent to 18,823 with arrivals from Saudi Arabis down 13.7 percent to 6,653 and UAE down […]