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Galle Literary Festival organizers expect an estimated 6,000 to 15,000 visitors in January 2024
Hopes to reach 2.3mn tourists next year
Sri Lanka is expecting around 1.5 million visitors in 2023
Airline organized a tour of the island for journalists from India's mainstream print and news media
ADB officials highlighted that the tourism industry in Sri Lanka is growing rapidly
Year of the Snake celebration at Shangri-La Colombo featured lion dance, blessings and Chinese customs
Sri Lanka's tourism sector may take a 30 percent hit but will bounce back with security being tightened, Finance Ministe...
United Kingdom has tightened a travel advisory to Sri Lanka saying telling citizens to avoid all but essential travel to...
Sri Lanka has suspended a visa on arrival program which was to start on May 01, following Easter Sunday bombings, the mi...
Sri Lanka's Tourism Development Ministry on Tuesday said that all major tourist sites remain open with tighter security ...
Thousands of tourists visiting Sri Lanka are cutting short their holiday plans and going back home, while forward bookin...
Sri Lanka is working to return the tourism industry to normalcy following the Easter Sunday bombings, the country's Tour...
ECONOMYNEXT – Shangri-La International Hotel Management Ltd. said its hotel in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo...
The state tourism regulator, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) has 2.9 billion rupees in assets which ...
Sri Lanka's tourism arrivals rose 4.7 percent in March 2019 from a year earlier to 244,328, helped by visitors from the ...
Sri Lanka is planning to boost off-peak season arrivals by 20 percent in 2019 with the introduction of a free on-arrival...
| 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 | - | - |
Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka grew 7 percent from a year earlier to 252,033 in February 2019, the state tourism developm...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will grant free visas to tourists from key markets like the United Kingdom, Europe and As...
Sri Lanka has approved for 54.7 million US dollars in hotel investments during the fourth quarter ending in December 201...
Sri Lanka's Jetwing Symphony Plc reported a loss of 128.5 million rupees in the December 2018 quarter, up 20 percent fro...
A Sri Lanka-World Bank joint study on how many tourists Sri Lanka can handle sustainably requires funding approval from ...
Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka in January 2019 rose 2.2 percent from a year earlier to 238,924, the tourism development a...
Sri Lanka's tourism promotion agency is planning to give an advertising incentive for inbound tour operators to encourag...
Sri Lanka's state tourism agency, the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau, is hoping to target its future promotions in ...
Sri Lanka has started regulating whale watching, extending a discriminatory fee structure to tourists which is already f...
Sri Lanka's delayed three billion rupee, three year main tourism promotional campaign is expected to get off the ground ...
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