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Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up 102-pct in Feb led by Russia

Russian arrivals were 32,030 just overtaking India at 30,027

March 3, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals in Feb led by Russia amid visa row

Russian visitors took pole position amid a visa row

March 3, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka aims to boost SME with Sancharaka Udawa tourism expo

Tourism industry exhibition will bring together businesses ranging from hotels to travel agents and airlines

February 29, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka's boat builders head to Dubai

Boat builders in Sri Lanka are headed to the Dubai International Boat show to showcase their capabilities

February 28, 2024 2 min read
Alipay+ enters Sri Lanka, likely to boost online tourism payment

Sri Lanka expects to attract 3 million tourists, $5 billion revenue for 2025

Sri Lanka navy documents shipwrecks off Colombo

Expedition to document current state of numerous shipwrecks lying beneath the waves off Colombo,

Sri Lanka’s Jetwing Symphony June losses grow with Easter Sunday hit

Sri Lanka’s Jetwing Symphony said that its net losses for the June 2019 quarter grew 4.1 percent to 161.6 million...

August 13, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Aitken Spence to sell Rs.1bn Maldivian island

Sri Lanka's Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings Plc (AHUN) will be selling the lease rights to a Maldivian Island valued at 953...

August 8, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka rewards eco-friendly practices as tourist industry set to grow

Sri Lanka's tourism industry is promoting good environmental and social practices, by recognizing leaders that follow st...

Chanka Jayasinghe
August 8, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka gives tourist hotels more time to pay development levy

Sri Lankan tourist establishments hit hard by April’s suicide bomb attacks which sharply reduced arrivals will be...

August 7, 2019 1 min read

Dubai’s One Nature to build hotel near Sri Lanka wild life park

Dubai’s One Nature luxury hotel group will lease land near Sri Lanka’s south coast Yala nature reserve to ...

August 7, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals down 46.9-pct in July

Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals for July were down 46.9 percent to 115,701 from a year earlier following the Easter Sunday ...

August 2, 2019 2 min read

Kandy hotels slash rates, discounts Perahera package to draw tourists to Sri Lanka

Hotels in Sri Lanka's cultural city Kandy are only half full during the annual 'Esala Perahera' pageant season which run...

Mahadiya Hamza
August 2, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka Easter bombing hit at The Kingsbury total Rs93mn

Sri Lanka's The Kingsbury Plc, which was one of the hotels bombed on Easter Sunday, had incurred 93 million rupees in da...

August 1, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka to call for proposals to develop Dedduwa tourism zone

Sri Lanka will seek proposals from consultants and developers to set up a tourism resort in Dedduwa, the cabinet office ...

August 1, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka targets over 1.9 million tourists for 2019: Tourism chief

Sri Lanka is expecting to draw 1.9 million to 2.0 million tourists in 2019, helped by lower prices and tightened securit...

July 31, 2019 1 min read
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Sri Lanka mulls award of tourism promotion campaign to J Walter Thompson

- Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had take up the award of an emergency recovery promotional campaign by passing standa...

July 31, 2019 1 min read

John Keells Hotels losses widen after Sri Lanka Easter bombings

Net losses at John Keells Hotels Plc (KHL) rose 66 percent to 437 million rupees in the June quarter from a year earlier...

July 25, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka to give free on arrival tourist visa to 45 countries

Sri Lanka's cabinet has approved to grant free on-arrival visa for touristss, and have expanded the program from 39 coun...

July 24, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka tourism recovery gathers pace after bombings

ECONOMYNEXT – The recovery of Sri Lanka’s tourism business is picking up pace with a marked increase in ar...

July 24, 2019 2 min read

South Asian Travel Awards 2019 to go ahead in Sri Lanka

The South Asian Travel Awards 2019 (SATA) will be hosted in Sri Lanka's southern resort Galle this September, an officia...

July 24, 2019 2 min read

Global finance trade forum goes ahead in Sri Lanka as security improves

A global association of financial market professionals is going ahead with plans to hold their world congress in Sri Lan...

July 24, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka hotel occupancy picks-up, revenues weak amid aggressive price cuts

Sri Lanka's hotel revenues are weak but occupancy is starting to pick up with aggressive price cutting drawing internati...

Mahadiya Hamza
July 23, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals recovery continues with boost from India

Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals have increased to an average 4,000 a day in the second week of July from 3,200 arrivals a d...

Mahadiya Hamza
July 20, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka gets foreign investment for Fantasy Island entertainment complex

Sri Lanka’s investment promotion agency said it has signed an agreement with foreign investors to build an entert...

July 18, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka hotels winter bookings picking up: CB Governor

Sri Lanka's central bank said that winter bookings at Sri Lankan hotels are picking up, after the initial setback due to...

July 18, 2019 2 min read