Dream Vacations Travel Blog - Sri Lanka Tours & Hotels

Spice Festival host up with HSBC and Sri Lankan Airlines as its sizzling appetizers

As the much talked about World Spice Food Festival heats up into action, all participating hotels open their doors to Tourists and Locals from across the country to visit and savour culinary masterpieces from renowned international chefs. Sri Lanka’s Hospitality Industry has risen to the occasion by ensuring that the master chefs will be on hand to showcase culinary delights from their part of the globe.

And adding more flavor to the event is the Hawker Street promotion which takes place on the 19th and 20th October at Nomads Ground from 6.30 pm onwards. This event is sure to be a resounding success simply because it promises easy access and trouble-free parking along with a plethora of great food at very nominal rates. The hotels, cafes and restaurants that will don the chef’s hat at the “Global Spice Food Village” are: Hilton Colombo: Mexican; Hotel Galadari: Chinese; Cinnamon Grand: Lebanese; Trans Asia Hotel: Singaporean; Ceylon Continental: Indonesian; Taj Samudra Hotel: Italian; Holiday Inn Hotel: Indian(South);Galle Face Hotel: Australian; Mt. Lavinia Hotel: Thai; Water’s Edge: Malaysian; Mango Tree: Indian; Raja Bojun: Sri Lankan; Siam House: Thai; Sakura: Japanese; Han Gook Gwan: Korean; Hilton Residence: Mediterranean;

The hotels with their signature chefs will have a weeks fare of their specialties in their restaurants from 21st to 27th October with many attractive offers especially for HSBC credit cardholders.

The Sri Lanka Spice Food Festival which is AN EVENT OF THE SRI LANKA TOURIST BOARD has HSBC as its main sponsor, whilst the foreign chefs will be flown down with the courtesy of SRI LANKAN AIR LINES.
This year’s World Spice Food Festival is assured of being bigger, better and spicier than last year’s. So visitors are welcome to walk in and sample the goodies on offer. HSBC credit cardholders have more to look forward to since every cardholder is guaranteed of great giveaways and super discounts. .

For more details please download Program Schedule

7th October 2007 (Sunday) to 7th October 2007 (Sunday)

Lanka Sportreizen together with Sri Lanka Tourism, Sri Lankan Air Lines, Health Ministry and the Sports Ministry is organizing this annual event targeting visitors with an interest in sports. This International Marathon was first introduced to the local athletic arena and soon included in the World Marathon Guide and has now become a regular annual event in Sri Lanka�s Sporting Calendar.

One of the objectives of this Marathon is to assist the charitable arm of the Sri Lankan Airlines Sri Lankan Care which is committed to the empowerment of children of the world through education, good health and a clean environment.

Subsequent to the successful tourism promotions in France and The Netherlands, Sri Lanka Tourism had further good news in the German and The UK markets. The travel advisory in Germany was reviewed by the authorities. The earlier advice against travelling to Sri Lanka if not essential has been deleted from the text of the German travel advisory. According to Channa Jayasinghe, the Director of the Tourist Board Office in Germany, this would definitely be most encouraging to the tour operators and travel agents selling Sri Lanka, as the earlier advisory led to confusion and was negatively interpreted by the public. After the FCO’s meeting in the UK, the Sri Lanka Tourist Board’s concerns were shared through the Pacific Asia Travel Association’s (PATA) UK Chapter, Association of National Tourist Office Representatives (ANTOR) and Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The FCO has further softened their travel advisory to Sri Lanka. The advisory has been reviewed and reissued with an amendment to the Summary and local travel section, where it now states we no longer advice against travel to the city of Anuradhupura, said Jean-Marc Flambert, Director UK & Ireland of the Tourist Board.

Tourism Opens Doors for Women
Sri Lanka

Visions of the New Millennium, an Online Photo competition to highlight women empowerment and ‎gender equality in action within the tourism sector around the world.‎

To participate and vote for your favorite pictures click here : www.YouTourist.travel ‎

* Prizes include 3 round trips and accommodation to the beautiful country of Sri Lanka & 9 ‎Digital cameras, sponsored by Sri Lanka Tourism Board. ‎
* Winning photographs will be announced during UNWTO General Assembly in Cartagena de ‎Indias, Colombia, 22-29 November and will be exhibited at UNWTO headquarters in Madrid, ‎Spain. ‎

Closing date for participation is 8 November 2007‎

Photos eligible to win should depict gender equality and women empowerment in action within the tourism ‎sector in your country, featuring photos that: ‎

* Show women and men participating equally in tourism activities ‎
* Show women leaders within the tourism sector ‎

World Tourism Day in 2007 is an occasion to celebrate women’s achievements in the tourism sector and ‎stimulate continuous action in support of UN’s 3rd Millennium Development Goal: Promoting Gender ‎Equality and Women Empowerment.

‎ This campaign is built to address the important role tourism can play in creating opportunities for ‎employment that will help eliminate poverty in local communities in developing countries around the world.

‎ Our goal is to build on knowledge sharing and capacity building to ensure the tourism sector promotes ‎gender equality and women empowerment through to 2015.

For more information:
World Tourism Organization - Press and Communications Department
comm@unwto.org