Category: Tourism

Apr 18, 2013 (LBO) – There should be no fears over moves by police to track tourists who are staying in hotels, as some other countries also follow the practice, a top tourist industry official said.“Some other countries also do follow the same procedure. So no one should get frightened about it,” Anural Lokuhetty, chairman […]

Apr 17, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s police have started to track foreign tourists “for their own safety” amid rising crime, a media report said.Hotels and guest houses have been told to submit weekly reports fo their foreign guests to police as part of a new ‘security plan for tourists,’ including visa a passport details. […]

Apr 05, 2013 (LBO) – Browns Investments Plc said it had bought a 51 percent stake in a 67-room luxury hotel in Dambulla in Central Sri Lanka for 500 million rupees.. The 67-roomed hotel, operated by Green Paradise (Pvt) Ltd, in Kambukkanwala, Dambulla, is close to ancient cities in Sigiriya, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, the firm […]

Mar 18, 2013 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines said it was halving flight to Chennai to 14 a week from 28 from Thursday March 21 following an attack on a visiting Buddhist monk by Tamil groups.“SriLankan Airlines has observed a drop in traffic between Chennai and Colombo due to recent developments in Tamil Nadu, hence […]

Mar 18, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has called upon citizens travelling to “exercise caution” following attacks by suspected Tamil groups on tourists including Buddhist monks, while India said action has been taken to find and prosecute those involved in assaults.Sri Lanka’s foreign ministry said it had “lodged strong protests with the Indian Government” through […]

Mar 14, 2013 (LBO) – UK High Commissioner to Sri Lanka John Rankin said visitors to Sri Lanka should uphold rule of law to make the island safe for visitors, following delays in bringing killers of a British tourist to justice.Khuraim Shaikh, a Red Cross worker who was holidaying in Sri Lanka’s coastal resort of […]

Mar 13, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourism arrivals rose 13. 4 percent to 97,411 in January 2013 from a year earlier, with double digit growth from Western Europe and China, the state tourism promotion office data showed. Indian visitors which grew just 2.9 percent in the whole of 2012 after visa requirements were re-imposed […]

Mar 01, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will invite over 100 travel agents from China as part of efforts to boost visitors from the country where outbound tourism is growing, minister Keheliya Rambukwelle said. The cabinet of minister had approved a proposal by minister Basil Rajapaksa to invite the travel agents on a familiarization tour […]

Feb 28. 2013 (LBO) – Kandy Hotels Co (1938) Plc, which controls two hotels in Sri Lanka’s central hill city of Kandy said it will start a 1.5 billion rupee refurbishment of the properties with the help of a Singapore based architectural firm. Corrected. Year of completion 2014 The firm said Hotel Suisse’ and Kandy’s […]

Feb 20, 2013 (LBO) – Simplify, a Colombo based aircraft operator said it planned to offer whale watching services using a newly delivered 5-seater amphibian aircraft it was managing for a third party. Simplify also has its own fleet.It operates operates a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter, a GA8 airvan, a Cessna 206 amphibian aircraft and […]

Feb 19, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has begun re-building a colonial era canal north of the capital Colombo as an eco tourism attraction due to its access to nearby wetlands, the island’s economic development ministry said.A 600 million rupee project to rebuild the canal banks, clear silt and spruce up the surroundings had been […]

Feb 19, 2012 (LBO) – Singapore-based SilverNeedle Hospitality said it is entering Sri Lanka with a 200 room hotel as part of a 100 million US dollar joint venture mixed development with the island’s Abans group. Abans is a group with 250 million US dollar a year in revenues and says it is the largest […]