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The app will be an incentive for expatriates who use formal banking channel
"The target for March 2023 was only 90,000, but we have exceeded that.
"The trend has changed even though we can't find a proper forecast for next month or the month after."
The valuation of the two buildings is yet to be done.
Malayalam movie starring Mammootty and Mohanlal will be filmed on location in Sri Lanka over 30 days in November
Palm Garden Hotels, a unit of Sri Lanka-based LOLC Group said it was in talks to form a joint venture with a Chinese sta...
Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka rose 11.8 percent from a year earlier to 186,288 in August 2016, with total visitors up 16...
ECONOMYNEXT – Although a lot of investments are going into building up-market hotels to attract high spenders, Sr...
Approvals for new projects in Sri Lanka are still too slow with red tape and official lethargy deterring investments, al...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s hotel construction boom, especially in the capital Colombo, could put pressure o...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Browns Beach Hotels said it plans to raise Rs1.4 billion rupees through a rights...
Sri Lanka's estimated tourism receipts rose 19 percent from a year earlier to Rs50 billion in the first six month of 201...
Tourists have flocked back to Sri Lanka's palm-fringed beaches since a bloody civil war ended in 2009, but environmental...
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals grew 19.1 percent from a year earlier in July 2016 to 209,351 recovering from a slow 2.2 pe...
Airbnb, an online vacation rental booking engine said it had seen a 172 percent growth in listing in Sri Lanka to 8,000 ...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 332.3603 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 440.9424 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 368.4879 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0805 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 227.4342 | 231.1659 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.5474 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2492 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 863.2287 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5586 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.4874 | 90.0766 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 6,365.57 | +0.26% |
| CSE All Share | 22,157.40 | +0.56% |
| Turnover Rs | 2975.05 million | 1193.67 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka will abolish floor rates for city hotels from March 2017, following requests from the industry, which has pric...
Sri Lanka's John Keells group is expecting to start construction of a 3.7 billion rupee hotel in Nuwara Eliya in the isl...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Hayleys group said it had bought an island resort in the Maldives for US$23 mill...
Sri Lanka could get as much as 2.5 million tourist arrivals in 2016, higher than the official target of 2.2 million, Tou...
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals grew just 2.2 percent to 118,038 in June 2016 from a year earlier, with slow growth from We...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings has called for better government regulations and en...
ECONOMYNEXT – China remains Sri Lanka’s fastest growing tourism market with the number of visitors up 31.5...
ECONOMYNEXT - Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel, a 5-star graded city hotel owned by Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings group said i...
ECONOMYNEXT – Grand Hyatt Colombo, owned by Sri Lanka’s biggest insurance and pension funds, is set to ope...
ECONOMYNEXT – A sharp increase in income tax payment reduced March 2016 quarter net profit of The Kingsbury hotel...
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