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Sri Lanka State Tourism Minister wants vibrant night time economy to boost tourism
Sri Lanka Coffee festival to be held in June for the third time
Republic Square, Navy Headquarters, Old Jetty, Customs House and GPO key components of Colombo Tourist City
ITC Ratnadipa started construction in 2014 and faced several delays
Tourist arrivals increased 17.3 percent from a year ago to 174,608 in April 2025
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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| 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 |
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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 | % | |
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| 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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CeyEndurance, a new Sri Lankan triathlon series, is expecting to fill the gap left by the popular global IRONMAN series ...
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals in 2019 fell 18 percent from a year earlier to 1.9 million persons, following the Easter Su...
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry is bracing for the worst winter season in 11 years, with lower numbers of tourists, who a...
Marella Discovery, the largest super-luxury ship of the Marella fleet, called on Colombo Port to boost Sri Lanka's touri...
Sri Lanka's Colombo Coffee Company, a café operator and provider of branded coffee for restaurants and hotels said it ...
Banking professional Chandani Werapitiya has been appointed the new director general of the state-tourism regulator, the...
Sri Lanka’s hotel chain Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts reopened Cinnamon Hakuraa Huraa Maldives, after refurbishments, ...
Sri Lanka's tourism revenues were estimated to have been down 10.5 percent from a year earlier to 332 million US dollars...
The most curious location in the world among internet users in the United States was Sri Lanka in 2019, according to Goo...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it is funding a 500,000 US dollar grant to train homestay owners and revise the cu...
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