A Sri Lankan hotelier says, the country should simplify the administrative process for approving the establishment of tourism projects to help attract investors to the sector.
“The administrative process for approval of construction of hotels and tourist establishments need to be further simplified”, A.N. Esufally, Chairman of the Dolphin Hotels PLC has said in the firms [...]
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SriLankan Airline’s Frequent Flyer programme has launched a mobile app, designed to provide an array of benefits to its members, including travel planning, announced the Airline in a statement issued.
With this new app, FlySmiLes members will be entitled to Bonus miles on their first flight with 5000 extra miles for Business class and 3000 miles [...]
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Sri Lanka has suspended an immigration official pending inquiry into a complaint made by a foreigner over extortion of money allegedly by the Sri Lankan immigration officers at the BIA.
According to the eTurboNews, one of its publisher’s Juergen T. Steinmetz has suffered from this extortion scam carried out by Sri Lankan Immigration Officers.
Juergen T. Steinmetz [...]
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A Sri Lankan Hotelier says though the country received one million tourists during the year 2012, the impact of same was not felt by the star class properties.
Chairman of the Pegasus Hotels of Ceylon D. C. R. Gunawardena in his statement made to the company’s 2012 – 2013 annul report reveals that the influx of [...]
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SriLankan Airlines says buying new aircrafts is important for it to compete with regional airlines such as Emirates, Qatar, Singapore and Cathay Pacific, which operates with modern set of fleets.
This fact has been stated by the Chairman of the national carrier, Nishantha Wickramasinghe during an interview he has given to the Sinhala news paper “Lankadeepa’s [...]
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Sri Lankan Airlines has sought permission from the government to purchase aviation fuel from Singapore to cut down its fuel expenses, a media report said.
The Airlines Chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe in an interview given to Sinhala weekly ‘Lankadeepa’ news paper has said, if the airline can buy fuel from Singapore, it would help the entity cut [...]
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Sri Lanka’s Coco Agro Hotels is planning to build a star class hotel and a conference center in n the Naiwala area of Veyangoda, announced the Board of Investment.
US$ 2.6 million facility will consist of luxury accommodation and convention and conference facilities which will help to cater to 700 guests at a time.
The BOI approved [...]
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Air Arabia, the first foreign carrier to operate services to Sri Lanka’s newly opened airport in Mattala has cancelled its services to the airport located in the south of the country, a media report said.
The UAE based airline was operating two weekly flights between Sharjah and Mattala.
According to the Air Arabia website, it has been [...]
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Sri Lanka’s Hemas Group has closed down its ‘Hotel Sigiriya’ and ‘Club Hotel Dolphin’ of Waikkal’ for refurbishment work.
Both hotels has been closed down since the 1st of May.
Hotel Sigiriya will be re-opened on the 30th of June 2013 while Club Hotel Dolphin will be re-opened on the 31st of October 2013.
As the Island’s tourism [...]
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SriLankan Airlines has introduced self-service check-in kiosks at the Bandaranaike International Airport.
“Specially designed for airlines and air travelers, self-service check-in Kiosk is a self-contained computer terminal which provides self-service check-in for single or multiple airlines”, a statement from the national carrier said.
The airline says through this Kiosk, passengers can check-in by entering their ticket numbers, [...]
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