Category: Tourism

Oct 24, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 18. 1 percent to 71,111 in September 2012 from a year earlier, with arrivals during the nine months up 16 percent to 693,772 data from the Indian Ocean island’s tourist promotion office showed. Arrivals from the Middle East fell 13 percent to 4,166. East Asian […]

Oct 23, 2012 (LBO) – Profits are Hotel Sigiriya Plc, which is located in central Sri Lanka, rose 24 percent to 16.5 million rupees in the September 2012 quarter, from a year earlier, interim accounts showed. The firm reported earnings of 2.82 rupees for the quarter. In the six months to September the firm reported […]

Oct 19, 2012 (LBO) – Hyatt Hotels Corporation said it had inked a deal to manage a 42-floor hotel in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo under which will have 474 rooms and 84 serviced apartments, which will open in 2014. Sri Lanka has seen a tourism boom with the end of a 30-year civil war in […]

Oct 17, 2012 (LBO) – SriLankan Golf Classic, a three day event with 130 international participants will kick off on October 19, as part of the state-run SriLankan Airlines to boost the island’s image as a sports destination, officials said. “Many countries in the Far East and South Asia have identified the potential in Sports […]

Oct 16, 2012 (LBO) – International Finance Corporation, a World Bank group unit will loan 10 million US dollars to Sri Lanka’s Soflogic group to renovate a hotel in the island’s South Western beach. The will be used to renovate and expand Ceysands Hotel, a 66-room hotel in Bentota into a 166 room 4-star resort, […]

Oct 12, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Uga Escapes leisure group will open a resort in the north eastern coast of Passikudah and the firm expects to sell a room at 250 to 300 US dollars a night, an official said. Sri Lanka is seeing a tourism boom after the end of a 30-year civil […]

Oct 09, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has lifted a travel advisory to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu that was imposed in the wake of a series of attacks by Tamil political groups on visiting pilgrims from the island. “People-to-people contact plays an important role in the multifaceted India-Sri Lanka relationship, especially in further […]

Oct 05, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence, which owns and operates hotels inSri Lanka, Maldives, India and Oman said it has started a drive into renewable energy which was helping the firm cut fossil fuel use. The group had installed gliricidia wood burning biomass gasifiers to run boilers at Heritance Tea Factory in […]

Oct 05, 2012 (LBO) – Minor International, a Thailand based leisure group said it had bought Paradise Island Resorts (Private) Limited, a beach resort in Sri Lanka for an undisclosed sum. Thailand’s Onyx Hospitality is also building an ‘Ozo’ branded city hotel in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo with local joint venture partners. The group said […]

Oct 01, 2012 (LBO) – Bhashwara Senanka Gunarathna, who was a member of the board of Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority since 2010 has been appointed its chairman the agency said. He is also the chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB). The Tourism Development Authority is a policy making and infrastructure development […]

Sept 30, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is holding a ‘World Spice Food Festival’ in Colombo starting from October 05, featuring country specific foods and competitions, the island’s tourism promotion agency said. A number of top hotels and restaurants in the capital will also participate with master chefs being flown in. Asian cuisine will be […]

Sept 26, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is set to launch its first tourism related think tank that will gather information, analyze data and offer expertise to both policy makers and the businesses community to better steer the island’s booming tourism industry. The Centre for Research and Sustainability Studies in Tourism (CRST) launched this week […]