New Chairman for SLITHM
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Bernard Goonatilake
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Sri Lanka's former Ambassador to the United States of America Bernard
Goonatilake, succeeds H. M. G. S. Pallihakkara as the new Chairman of
the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (SLITHM).
Minister of Tourism, Milinda Moragoda has made this appointment with
effect from August 01, 2008.
Goonatilake is a senior diplomat and former Secretary to the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs.
He has already had a distinguished career as a public servant,
serving as Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, and to the
United Nations in Geneva amongst other significant posts.
More recently he has been Acting Ambassador to the United Nations in
New York which followed on from his appointment as the first Secretary
General to the Secretariat for the Coordination of the Peace Process (SCOPP).
Goonatilake comes in as the Chairman to SLITHM as H. M. G. S.
Pallihakkara takes up a new appointment as the Ambassador, Permanent
Representative for Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York. Tourism
Minister, Milinda Moragoda appointed Pallihakkara as the firstever
Chairman of the newly created Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel
Management (SLITHM).
This followed the promulgation of the Tourism Act, No. 35 of 2005
which came into force last year. Pallihakkara has steered the SLITHM
through its transition with great leadership and determination. |
