The five-star Heritance Ahungalla, part of the premier hospitality chain Aitken Spence Hotels, was lauded with the coveted TUI Top Quality 2018 award from TUI Germany, the largest leisure, travel and tourism company in the world.

Colombo City Tour Double-Decker Buses operated by Ebert Silva dressed up for Xmas commenced a special service for the Xmas Season. In the picture Tourism Minister John Amaratunga is seen inaugurating the special service. The bus will take tourists fr

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe visited the site of the proposed Dedduwa Tourism zone site in Bentota, yesterday. 

Sri Lanka is placing its name on the global map as a sought after destination by various international news feature reviews, as Eurasia review mentioned Sri Lanka as the most sought after destination in Asia with reference to the 2018 Virtuoso Luxe&n

The Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) was recently invited to conduct a session on hospitality management to over 200 deputy principals at the Ministry of Education.

The laying of foundation stone for the People’s Bank’s proposed seven storey eco-friendly green branch in Jaffna took place recently under the patronage of People’s Bank Chief Executive Officer/General ManagerN. Vasantha Kumar.

The Sri Lanka Insurance Motor Plus Loyalty Rewards network has joined Laugfs Car Care once again to offer a host of benefits to Motor Plus comprehensive customers. The many attractive offers available for Motor Plus customers under this deal includes

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon was the highest-ranked private bank in the inaugural ‘Best Sri Lankan Brands 2017’ ranking announced recently by Interbrand, and was placed fourth overall among the country’s top brands.

DFCC Bank has launched a thrilling Christmas light-up to brighten the holiday season in conjunction with a host of exciting discounts on its credit cards and the virtual wallet.

In a move that affirms the financial strength and stability of People’s Leasing and Finance (PLC) as one of the largest non-banking financial institutions in Sri Lanka, PLC was listed at the 15th position in the Business Today Top 30 List.

Citizen’s Development Business Finance - CDB’s revolutionary e-finance platform CDBiNet is using the contemporary role that Facebook plays in people’s current lifestyles to initiate fund transfers.

iflix, the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets, is thrilled to share its latest milestone - 10 billion minutes streamed across its platform in 2017. The achievement, equivalent to more than 19,000 years of content streame

EWIS Group, a pioneer within Sri Lanka’s ICT industry, recently announced the launch of its smart interactive display, the combined digital screen and open pluggable specification which can establish the foundation of smart classrooms.

The e-Swabhimani Awards 2017 was held recently with much pageantry to recognise and champion the nation’s digital social innovators.

LOLC Micro Credit Limited (LOMC), one of Sri Lanka’s largest microfinance providers successfully concluded its annual ‘Isuru Diriya Sisu Upahara Scholarship Awards Ceremony’ at the BMICH recently.

The Hemas chain of Piyawara pre-schools has, since its inception in 2002, enriched the lives of underprivileged children across Sri Lanka through a focused early childhood care and development (ECCD) programme.

‘Kaiya’ in Sinhala means ‘gathering of people for co-operative work to achieve a common goal’. Thus ‘Kurulu Kaiya’ is a gathering aimed at promoting environmental responsibility through the celebration of the wonde

The Prison Reform and Integrate programme initiated by the Merrill J. Fernando Charitable Foundation’s Small Entrepreneur Programme (SEP) handed over cheques to 25 prisoners to help them to rebuild their lives.

‘Shilpa Abhimani 2017’, International Crafts Festival was held under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) in Colombo recently.

South Asia Textiles Limited, a leading Sri Lankan textile manufacturer specialised in producing exceptional quality weft knitted fabric, recently announced that the company was the recipient of the Silver award in Manufacturing – apparel, texti

The ultimate shopping festival, the DSI Mega 2017, was declared open on December 16th 2017 at the head office complex of D. Samson and Sons (Pvt.) Ltd, at No.257, High Level Road, Nawinna, Maharagama.

Three Sinha Group of Companies, an organisation that strives to break barriers in the roller door industry won the Gold award in Extra Large Category - National Level and the Gold award in Extra Large Category - Western Province at the Sri Lankan Ent

Sri Lanka will be calling for a fresh round of bids from digital publicity agencies to carry out the long-delayed digital media campaign to promote the country’s tourism industry, a cabinet spokesperson said yesterday.

State-owned banking giant Bank of Ceylon (BOC) is to raise up to Rs.8 billion through a listed debenture issue to fulfil the Basel III capital requirements.

The Swadeshi Industrial Works PLC, Sri Lanka’s foremost and pioneering herbal-personal care product manufacturer in a bid to eradicate dengue menace from the country has introduced ‘Swadeshi Safeplus Citro’ herbal mosquito repellent

Commercial High Court issued an interim order restraining three directors of Spice of Life (Pvt.) Ltd from a purported allotment of shares as well as issuing abstracts of board papers, which have not been passed by the board of directors. 

The Centre for Global and Strategic Studies (CGSS) organised an Interactive Session on ‘Strategic Environment of South Asia/Indian Ocean Region: Sri Lankan Perspective’. Pathfinder Foundation Centre for Indo-Lanka Relations Director Admir

The third quarter of the Sri Lankan tea industry witnessed a continuation of the upward momentum with increased demand being observed from some of the major importers of Ceylon tea especially from Turkey and Russia.

In commemoration of 150 years of excellence of Ceylon Tea, the Plantation Industries Ministry and Sri Lanka Tea Board hosted the National Tea Awards, at which Planters’ Association Secretary General Malin Goonetileke was honoured with the prest

Colombo Christmas Street 2017 is set to take place from today to December 23, at Green Path, offering a whole new concept in entertainment for the second consecutive year.