Category: Tourism

Dec 31, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is targeting 1. 2 million tourist arrivals for 2013 after welcoming a million tourists in 2012, more than it target of 950,000, the state tourism promotion office said. Update II/Corrected billion dollars On December 30, officials led by deputy economic development minister Lakshman Yapa had welcomed Jiang Ying […]

Dec 28, 2012 (LBO) – Chinese visitors to Sri Lanka has surged 164 percent to 3,353 in November 2012 with total visitors in the first 12 months up 46 percent to 22,176 data from the tourist promotion office shows. China is the top source of visitors for many fast growing East Asian countries. In Vietnam […]

Dec 19, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 20.1 percent to 109,202 in November from a year earlier with arrivals up to November up 16 percent to 883,353 data from the state tourist promotion office showed. Tourists from South Asia rose 9. 6 percent to 26,649 helped by a recovery of the Indian […]

Dec 19, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals which rose 16. 5 percent to 883,353 in the 11 months to November 2012 from a year earlier, has outstripped that of Maldives which welcomed 866,310 tourists up only 2.4 percent. The phenomenon based mostly on overland travel revolutionized global tourism before the advent of privately […]

Dec 18, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has reached an annual target of 950,000 for 2012 with the arrival of Agata Dziekn from Poland on December 18, the state tourism promotion office said. In November 2012 arrivals rose 20 percent from a year earlier to 109,202, the tourism office said. Dziekn, a graphic designer was […]

Dec 15, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s LankaCom and Singapore’s SingTel has launched an IPTV based entertainment platform for hotels that gives customized entertainment and two way interaction with guests to offer and sell other services, officials said. Wizner said each room is provided with a small wireless set-top box that can connect the guest’s […]

Dec 03, 2012 (LBO) – Organizers of Sri Lanka’s Galle Literary Festival said it will return in 2014 with “a host of renowned writers, authors, historians, poets and biographers both global and local” after taking skipping 2013. “We wish to advise all friends of the Galle Literary Festival, that we have decided to take a […]

Nov 20, 2012 (LBO) – Fortress Resort and Spa, a hotel in Koggala in Sri Lanka’s southern coast said profit rose sharply to 35 million rupees in the six months to September 2012 recovering from a loss a year earlier. The firm reported earnings of 32 cents for the half year. Sri Lanka’s rupee weakened […]

Nov 20, 2012 (LBO) – A 500 million rupee a 30 villa boutique hotel with French investment will be built in Kalkudah Bay, in Sri Lanka’s eastern coast, the state investment promotion agency said. Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment said 12 luxury bungalows comprising the Karpaha Kalkudah resort will be built among 300 coconut, kohomba […]

Nov 17, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 15.5 percent to 80,379 in October 2012 from a year earlier, data from the statistics office showed, with total visitors up 16. 0 percent to 774,151 during the first ten months. Arrivals from Western Europe were hardly changed growing 1.9 percent to 24,303 in October […]

Nov 16, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Grand Orient Hotel, owned by a state bank and adjacent British colonial era buildings will be re-developed with the help of private investment in a project which may involve up to a billion US dollars, the state information office said. State run Bank of Ceylon has developed a […]

Nov 15, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence group, which has interests in tourism, logistics and power generation said profits in the September 2012 quarter grew 56 percent to 731 million rupees from a year earlier. The group reported earnings of 1. 80 rupees per share for the quarter, in results filed with the […]