Emirates’ much-anticipated one-off A380 flight to Colombo on August 14 reflects the airline’s commitment to the destination and its tourism industry and is an opportunity for Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to show the world that

SriLankan Airlines has recorded a consistently superior on-time performance during the first six months of this year, in comparison with its peers. The latest statistics by the global flight data tracker Flightstats.com ranks Sri Lanka’s nation

Airwise: Singapore Airlines reported a higher operating profit for its first quarter, as group revenue rose 5.6 percent.Total revenue for the quarter to end June came in at SGD$3.86 billion, from the previous year period’s SGD$3.66 billion. Ope

Mastercard announced its partnership with Emirates to offer additional savings on economy and business class tickets. 

Sri Lanka is witnessing a surge in tourism that has the potential to make it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The country attracted over two million tourists in 2016, generating revenue of over US$3.5 billion, up by 14 perce

The Cinnamon Future of Tourism Summit will be held on 26 September as a one-day conference that will deliberate and draw examples from the best practices around the world on the theme ‘Innovation, Technology and Authenticity’. 

Emirates has been recognised in the Future Travel Experience (FTE) Airline Passenger Experience Power List 2017. 

John Keells Hotels PLC (KHL), the hotel and resort operator of Sri Lanka’s largest business conglomerate John Keells Holdings PLC, posted a Rs.230.94 million net loss for the first quarter of 2018, nose-diving from a Rs.83.93 million net profit

In its endeavour to expand and strengthen its presence in international markets - IndiGo, India’s largest and fastest growing low-cost carrier has today announced the appointment of Hemas Aviation as their General Sales Agent (GSA) in Sri Lanka

Hayleys Advantis Limited broke ground for a mega distribution centre (DC) in Kotugoda last week, paving the way for the construction of the largest facility of this nature in the country with a foot print in excess of 500,000 sqft. 

Shaesta Waiz, the youngest woman to complete around the world solo flight landed in Sri Lanka on July 27th.  

?The ?Institute of Shipping & Logistics  (IOSL)? is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year ?and ?a series of events/workshops ? have been scheduled? to showcase ?this milestone.??

Etihad Airways announced its 2016 financial results, recording a net loss of US$ 1.87 billion on US$ 8.36 billion in revenues as one-off impairment charges and fuel hedging losses weighed against a solid performance of the core airline.  

The Ceylon Association of Shipping Agents (CASA) announced that Ruwan Waidyaratne, Managing Director – Hayleys Advantis Limited, had been unanimously elected as its Chairman for 2017/18 at the Association’s 51stAnnual General Meeting (AGM

Evergreen Line vessel MV (Motor Vessel) Toledo Triumph with the capacity of 14,000 TEUS made it’s maiden call at Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT) recently.

Qatar Airways has announced it will introduce a fourth daily non-stop service from Doha to Colombo from 1 August 2017. 

 Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) - Sri Lanka arranged a panel discussion on “National Maritime Policy and way forward” following their Annual General Meeting held at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce

Shangri-La’s Hambantota Resort and Spa, celebrated its first year anniversary with the launch of its golf membership earlier this month, and more recently a most memorable cocktail and dinner event held at the Sunset Beach and Artisan Village.&

Etihad Airways is adding year-round flights between its Abu Dhabi hub and both Cairo and Lagos later this year to cater to growing demand to and from the United Arab Emirates.

SriLankan Airlines reaches an exciting milestone last Sunday as it launched a new four-times-a-week service to Coimbatore. This took SriLankan’s online destination count to 41, the highest ever in Sri Lanka’s aviation history.

The second boat building factory of Dhanusha Marine opened July 7th 2017 in Kalutara.  This is in collaboration with Hyundai En Tech and Hanil Ship Building Company, Korea with a Rs.300 million investment. Managing Director, Dhanusha Marine, G.

The Board of Directors of South Asia Gateway Terminals, Port of Colombo, at their meeting held on July 20th, has appointed Romesh David as SAGT’s new CEO in succession to Erwin Haaze.

Emirates has announced it will increase the frequency of flights between Dubai and Khartoum from five to seven a week starting August 8th.

The Trincomalee harbour will be developed under a three-year plan, Ports and Shipping Minister Mahnida Samrasinghe, who made a visit to the harbour said recently. He said 10, 000 hectares of land vested with the harbour have been identified. This lan

The third consecutive Tourism Leaders’ Summit and International Research Symposium is to be held on 3rd and 4th October at the BMICH in Colombo.

Stasshani Jayawardena, Director of Aitken Spence PLC and Chairperson of Aitken Spence Hotel Managements (Pvt) Limited was recently awarded the Hotel & Hospitality sector Gold award at the Top 50 Professional & Career Women Awards organised by

The Minister of Tourism Development John Ameratunga inaugurating  The  Sri  Lanka  Pavilion  at the India International Travel Mart in Bangalore on 21st July. IITM is India’s Premier Travel and Tourism Exhibition

Sri Lanka recently witnessed the launch of Makeyourtrip.com, the first-ever online platform that helps Sri Lankans build, customise, edit and price their travel itineraries, based on their likes and interests. Makeyourtrip.com is powered by Findmyfar

Colombo is among the top five exit cities in South Asia in 2016 in terms of visitor arrivals for Singapore that indicates a boom in outbound tourism. 

Hotel Show Lanka 2017, the leading specialized trade show for the hotel, restaurant and food service sectors concluded its twelfth edition with a spectacular awards ceremony, highlighting significant advancement in the industry.