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Mirissa beach to get blue flag status, which will increase by fivefold the southern province's tourism-based economy
Tour operators have opposed the price controls, saying it amounts to illegal price-fixing in other markets.
Sri Lanka has seen sharp rise in number of AIDS-infected people in the last year
Sri Lanka already has declared 15 tourism zones
Sri Lanka has aimed at $5 billion revenue from tourism in 2025
Chinese workers in Sri Lanka who had gone home for Lunar New Year holidays have been asked to delay their arrival, China...
Sri Lanka is screening passengers arriving in cruise ships as coronavirus infected persons were found on a liner in Japa...
Tourist arrivals from China to Sri Lanka have dropped about 40 percent from January 23 as both countries tightened trave...
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals dropped 7.4 percent from a year earlier to 226,094 and arrivals from China dropped 15 perce...
Some tour operators have begun cancelling bookings from China to Sri Lanka as Beijing banned group travel from yesterday...
Sri Lanka has halted automatic issue of electronic travel authorization for tourists from China and will give approvals ...
The fragmentation of state land among different institutions is hindering tourism development in Sri Lanka, a minister s...
| 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 | - | - |
Provincial councils in Sri Lanka have been asked to liberalize beverage licenses to improve tourism receipts to the coun...
The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau (SLTPB) has developed a long-term promotions plan focusing on major markets, whi...
Investments into Sri Lanka's tourism sector came to a standstill in the September quarter from three months earlier, off...
Cinnamon Bentota Beach, a historically important 1967 hotel designed by Geoffrey Bawa who inspired an architectural styl...
Sri Lanka will ask banks to extend new loans of up to 300 million rupee for small and medium scale (SME) businesses to t...
Sri Lanka will receive a 10.96 million US dollar grant from Korea to develop the tourism industry in the island nation, ...
A host of Hollywood celebrities visited Sri Lanka over the past week, poised to give the island's tourism industry, curr...
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called for a target based plan to drive tourism revenue to 10 billion US do...
Sri Lanka's passport has been ranked 97 among 200 countries and territories in a global index of travel freedoms, droppi...
CNN's foremost international business correspondent and presenter Richard Quest will feature Sri Lanka in the newest edi...
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