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Citrus Leisure Plc has said it will open its revolving restaurant at the Lotus Tower in a week or so.
Board of Investment has signed an agreement to develop a cable car system
We cannot go on crutches anymore
"Tourism was not something that was new to us. It was there even in the time of the Anuradhapura period."
177,403 arrivals in the first three weeks of January
Sri Lanka missed the 2.3 million tourist arrival target last year.
Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka grew 7 percent from a year earlier to 252,033 in February 2019, the state tourism developm...
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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 ...
| 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 |
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