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Tourism

Sri Lanka targets 2.3 million tourists in 2024

India, Russia, China, the United Kingdom and Germany to be top markets

November 27, 2023 1 min read

Russian flight permission delay causing shortfall in Sri Lanka's tourists: SLTDA

Expected five Russian charter flights have been delayed due to a delay in clearance from the Civil Aviation Authority

November 27, 2023 1 min read

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka eyes $200 mln yearly from foreign ships

“We lose significant revenue because we don’t have ENCs" - Minister

November 25, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka to host international music show

First of a series of international shows between Sri Lanka, Canada and Malaysia featuring Indian musicians

November 23, 2023 1 min read
Sri Lanka's Kandy Myst by Cinnamon opens pre-bookings

The 215-room property will be the largest hotel in the central hill city of Kandy

US $109k grant to preserve Sri Lanka archaeological building

US partners with Sri Lanka to preserve Thuparama in Polonnaruwa

Sri Lanka awaits nod for delayed tourism zones

Sri Lanka is keeping its hopes alive to create tourism zones in Dedduwa, Kuchchaveli and Kalpitiya, with final discussio...

February 7, 2019 1 min read

Japanese invest in US$3.9mn hotel in Sri Lanka’s Dambulla

ECONOMYNEXT – Japanese investors are to build a four-star hotel in Sri Lanka’s Dambulla area at a cost of ...

February 6, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Rs. 6.5bn Cinnamon Red Kandy to open by end-2020

Cinnamon, the hotel chain of Sri Lanka's John Keells Group, will open a 6.5 billion rupee lean luxury hotel in Kandy as ...

February 2, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka tourism earnings grow 11.6-pct to US$4.4bn: revised data

Sri Lanka earned 4.4 billion US dollars from tourism in 2018, up 11.6 percent from 3.9 billion US dollars a year earlier...

January 21, 2019 2 min read

All Sri Lanka's Hunas Falls stockholders get offer from Japan-backed Serenity Lake Leisure

Serenity Lake Leisure (Private) Limited which gained control of Sri Lanka's Hunas Falls Hotel Plc on January 14 made an ...

January 17, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka tourism promotion grounded over board delay

ECONOMYNEXT- A planned three billion rupee destination promotion campaign has run aground with the government yet to app...

January 17, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka tourism starts to recover from political crisis hit

Bookings at Sri Lankan hotels have started to recover in January 2019, industry officials said, after being hit from a p...

January 16, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka targets three million tourists in 2019: minister

Sri Lanka is targeting three million tourists for 2019 Tourism Development Minister John Amaratunga said, after missing ...

January 14, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Hunas Falls soars amid take-over offer

Sri Lanka's Hunas Falls Hotels Plc, a hotel in Sri Lanka's knuckles mountain range has soared 19.3 percent amid a take-o...

January 7, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up 10.3-pct in 2018, earnings down

Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka grew 10.3 percent from a year earlier to 2.3 million visitors in 2018, missing an annual t...

January 3, 2019 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Lighthouse Hotel in Rs450mn upgrade

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Lighthouse Hotel said it will invest 450 million rupees to refurbish and upgrade...

December 24, 2018 1 min read

Hilton to manage US$12mn beach resort near Sri Lanka wildlife park

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s investment promotion agency has approved construction of a beach resort near the...

December 21, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka, UNDP to improve tourism sustainability standards

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka's state tourism office will be launching a sustainable tourism certificate scheme for the industr...

December 12, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka President delivers financial blow to hotels

Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has decreed that private hotels should not be used for state functions amid s...

December 6, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up 16.8-pct in Nov with Barmy Army, Indians

Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka in November 2018 grew 16.8 percent from a year earlier to 195,582 despite an ongoing polit...

December 6, 2018 2 min read

Political crisis risks derailing Sri Lanka tourism campaign

Sri Lanka's political crisis should be resolved as soon as possible to enable the launch of a global promotional campaig...

November 28, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up 0.5-pct in Oct

Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka in October 2018 grew 0.5 percent from a year ago to 153,123 led by Indian visitors, the to...

November 8, 2018 1 min read

New hotel proposals almost double in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s growing tourism industry has attracted a lot of investments during the first eight mont...

November 6, 2018 1 min read

Swiss Air charter flights bring high spenders to Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT - Swiss Air has started “Edelweiss Air” charter flights twice a week to Sri Lanka from 03rd Nove...

November 6, 2018 1 min read

Jetwing chief hails 'So Sri Lanka' tourism campaign

The new 'So Sri Lanka' tourism promotions theme and campaign is the best that has ever been, one of the country's leadin...

November 4, 2018 2 min read