European Street Food Festival on 30 Sept.

The European Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka (ECCSL) will be hosting a European Street Food Festival on 30 September at the Colombo Racecourse premises. Currently, The Galle Face Hotel, The Kingsbury, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Hilton Colombo, Harpo’s Pizza, Park Street Gourmet, Apero, Bread.lk, Wine.lk, GLO Juices, Isle of Gelato, Paan Paan, Foodies Goodies, MA’S Foods, Dutch …

Delicious Sri Lanka: Australia’s new favorite destination

http://www.traveller.com.au: It was the crab curry that got me. The rich, spicy sauce that ended up covering my hands and splattering my clothes. The sweet, salty crab meat that I had to work for, wrenching from the shell, twisting and snapping and slurping. The rice, piled high, mixed through with that fiery red sauce, shovelled …

Sri Lanka Tourism aims to increase French arrivals up to 111,000

Sri Lanka Tourism will participate in the International France Travel Mart at Paris Porte De Versailles this week. It is aimed at attracting French travellers to the island which has seen an increase of nearly 11% last year. This year it is envisaged that the numbers would go up to 111,000 of which the IFTM …

Cinnamon Air to launch daily flights from Cultural Triangle to south coast

Cinnamon Air, Sri Lanka’s premier domestic airline, is gearing up to meet the demand for domestic air travel this Winter (Northern Hemisphere) by introducing their newest daily scheduled flight route from the cultural city of Sigiriya to Sri Lanka’s Southern coastal cities, Hambantota and Koggala. Effective from the 1st of December 2018, these daily scheduled …

PM opens Colombo City Centre Mall

Colombo City Centre Mall by Abans and NextStory Group was ceremoniously opened by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe september 19th at Colombo 2. Conveniently situated by the scenic Beira Lake at the heart of the city, this ultra-modern lifestyle destination has been billed as Sri Lanka’s first international fashion mall. The Mall will offer a world-class …

Sri Lanka Tourism completes tourism road show in Germany

The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau completed a week-long road show through some of the leading economic cities in Germany: Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/main and Munich. The delegation was led by Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Berlin Karunasena Hettiarachchi. In all four cities, Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau Director Marketing Madubhani Perera, gave a comprehensive and …

Capitol Twinpeaks introduces Duplex Sky Bungalows on Beira Lakefront

Capitol Twinpeaks, as the purely residential project on the Beira Lakefront, is introducing two-storey Duplex units or ‘Sky Bungalows’ that stack two apartments together to create magnificent double height units. The spectacular vistas of the surrounding ocean and lake are heightened and can truly be enjoyed in these purposebuilt units. This, as well as the …

AGSEP delivers key insights on tourism industry of SL

From left: AGSEG Legal Officer Shania Dilhani, AGSEG Public Relation Sithara Chathurangi, AGSEG CEO Dr. Dietmar Doering, AGSEG Research Senior Citizens Partner Dr. Tissa Jayaweera and German Tourist Elina Gansweith   Asian German Sports Exchange Program (AGSEP), a local non-commercial government-associated organisation recently shed light upon some key insights on obstacles which hinder growth and economic …

SriLankan Airlines makes changes to Winter 2018 schedule

In keeping with its strategy of optimising and rationalising market opportunities throughout its route network, SriLankan Airlines said yesterday it will be introducing a range of significant changes to the winter schedule. Accordingly, the National Carrier will be deploying state-of-the-art A330-300 aircraft on its daily Melbourne operations from 28 October. The airline said it is …