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The EU and USAID have extended their support to the Pekoe Trail project.
Portal says another $18.5 will be charged per visa
Scanners that detect diseases, baggage, body, passport, and biometric access control gifted under IOM project
No enforced dry holiday for tourists
UAE top delegation comes to Sri Lanka following President Dissanayake visit to Dubai in February
Tourist arrivals increased 38 percent from a year ago to 93,915 in the first 15 days
Hi-tech Chinese companies should invest in Sri Lanka and more tourists could also visit the island now that the sector h...
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals are expected to fully recover from the setbacks after the Easter Sunday attacks by the end ...
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals were down 9.5 percent from a year earlier to 244,239 in November 2019, recovering from a 70...
Readers of the upmarket travel publication Conde Nast Traveler have voted Sri Lanka the fourth best country to travel to...
Sri Lanka's Hurulu Eco park in north-central Habarana has become a major tourist attraction, with foreign visitors and r...
Sri Lanka’s Softlogic Holdings made a loss of 762 million rupees in the September 2019 quarter compared with profits o...
Sri Lanka is expecting investments into tourism received from 2010 to 2019 to double over the next five years to 6 billi...
Spain's Barcelo Hotels Mediterraneo S. L., a subsidiary of the Barcelo Group, will invest 30 million US dollars in Maldi...
Sri Lankan logistics group Expolanka Holdings lost 830 million rupees in the September 2019 quarter compared with a prof...
The state-run Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau will begin launching tourism marketing campaigns totaling 1.2 billion ...
| 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 | |
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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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
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Italy-based Costa Cruises has kicked of the first of a series of fortnightly cruises to Western India, Maldives and Colo...
Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka fell 22.5 percent in October 2018 from a year earlier to 118,743 persons, as the country c...
A Maldivian resort chain is to manage a five-star hotel to be built in Sri Lanka's southern Tangalle region with an inve...
Losses at Sri Lanka’s Serendib Hotels group widened to 70 million rupees in the September 2019 quarter from a year ago...
Sri Lanka’s The Kingsbury hotel, damaged in the Easter Sunday bombings, said it is revamping restaurants which will be...
Sri Lanka’s Asian Hotels and Properties said net profits fell 95 percent to 10.6 million rupees in the September 2019 ...
Sri Lanka on Wednesday initiated a coastal conservation and tourism development master plan in the coastal stretch from ...
The Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management (SLITHM), a state-run hotel school, is looking to establis...
John Keells Hotels Plc (KHL), the Sri Lankan and Maldivian resort operator of the John Keells Group, said it posted 470 ...
Airlines have started to denominate tickets in US dollars instead of rupees, travel agents in Sri Lanka said, in a new ...
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