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What is the cost of service? The parliament must immediately investigate
Travel trade appeals for Presidential intervention
Data released up to April 28, initially showed lower tourism numbers
So it is up to the hotels also to do their own marketing and they also have to go out there
Sri Lanka has aimed at an ambitious $5 bln revenue, 3 mln arrival tourism targets this year.
Total visitors so far this year are 1,029,803 up 14.5-pct
With a global Coronavirus pandemic keeping people at home and flights cancelled from many countries Sri Lanka's tourism ...
Sri Lanka has seen a surge of new Coronavirus cases driven by returnees from Italy, with one confirmed case who had not...
Sri Lanka has found three new Coronavirus virus among persons who had recently returned from abroad, the state informati...
Sri Lanka will deny entry to travelers from France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden and Austri...
Sri Lanka is halting on-arrival visa for tourists until further notice, in a new Coronavirus control measures, the state...
Sri Lanka has halted religious pilgrimages to India as part of novel Coronavirus control measures the state information ...
Sri Lanka will quarantine incoming passengers from Italy, Korea and Iran on flights arriving from 0400 am on March 10 (T...
State-run SriLankan Airlines may suspend flights to China for a time amid a Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, as passenge...
Sri Lanka's has halted cruise tourism as the Coronavirus spread to Europe and the US and the Indian Ocean island will al...
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals have fallen 17.7 percent from a year ago to 207,507 in February 2020, hit by the novel Coro...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 332.5018 | 332.3603 |
| UK Pound | 440.0661 | 440.9424 |
| Euro | 367.7137 | 368.4879 |
| Yen | 2.0793 | 2.0805 |
| Aus Dollar | 226.4670 | 227.4342 |
| Latest | Last | |
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| Indian Rupee | 3.5357 | 3.5474 |
| Korean Won | 0.2494 | 0.2492 |
| Oman Rial | 863.5962 | 863.2287 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5939 | 88.5586 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.5259 | 90.4874 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 6,293.72 | -1.13% |
| CSE All Share | 22,024.18 | -0.60% |
| Turnover Rs | 3232.70 million | 2975.05 million |
| Latest | Last | |
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| 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 | |
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| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
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Sri Lanka will host a conference of Asia Pacific tourism ministers, state and industry officials in June 2020 focussing ...
Sri Lanka is applying its anti-Coronavirus control procedures to new hotspots as Italy, Korea and Iran emerged to the fo...
Sri Lanka's hotels, which were given till January 2020, to pay a tourism tax for 2019, after the industry was hit by sui...
India-based GoAir is launching flights to Sri Lanka's capital Colombo from Delhi and Bangalore from March 20, with intra...
Sri Lanka's Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) said about half of the respondents to a survey of member firms had reported...
Sri Lanka will discharge a tourist from China who was treated for the novel Coronavirus on February 19, after making a f...
A Cabinet paper for a proposed Zoological Garden in Kahapola, Piliyandala will be presented to the cabinet in the coming...
The free visa scheme for tourists arriving in Sri Lanka which had begun last August will be extended to April 2020, the ...
Government Media Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said that the government intends to develop the tourism industry to earn...
Sri Lanka's Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings Plc posted 58 million rupees in profits for the December quarter, down 82.8 per...
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