Sri Lanka Tourism Awards 2010:

Best Tourism Website award for iconic Heritage Hotel

We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths, is indeed the sentiments of GM Anura Dewapura, who have dominated the Best Tourism Website for Year 2010 in the Marketing Communications category.

As Sri Lanka Tourism announced that an iconic heritage hotel has achieved Best Tourism Website of the year 2010 it shows that MLH is actually focusing on global trends and indeed relying a great deal on what people are in tune to. A corporate recognition and achieving ‘Gold’ by competing in the corporate criteria in the “Best Web” competition of Year 2010 did not stop them.

This web based competition in 2010 provided an exclusive opportunity to promote and popularize the Sri Lankan websites and showcase the Sri Lankan web identity online, and MLH was proud to achieve Gold with big corporate giants bagging second and third.

“Though we are not a corporate hotel, Mount Lavinia Hotel has proved to be the best in the corporate criteria because we at MLH believe reliance in cyberspace will only continue to grow in the years ahead, and it only proves our efforts,” Anura said at the big win.

“While we’ve refined the design, cleaned up the layout, improved ‘search’, expanded the journalistic mission: the real change is in the approach to make it user friendly and to help readers quickly and easily make sense of Mount Lavinia Hotel, a wider view of what makes Mount Lavinia unique from the rest of Sri Lanka’s hotel properties and indeed the 200 years of history that is instilled in the walls of the building, connecting them with why Mount Lavinia Hotel stands out from the from the rest.

“In many ways, it is the new website’s mission that is set for ourselves to reach our overall vision; to be the premier colonial heritage hotel in the region.

The main objective of the new website is to directly engage you with the experience of the hotel which is indeed Sri Lanka’s vibrant history amalgamated to global trends that people would like to experience,” they said.

The new website provides enhanced access to information about the hotel.

A clearer structure, simplified navigation and improved search functions, make finding information easier than before. While occasional users of the site will benefit from the improved navigation menus, more frequent visitors will benefit from the “Lavinia Gifts” menu that provides a shopping phenomenon, ‘One Stop Shop’ to all your wedding needs. The connections and the fast access to ‘travel tips’ when in the country and indeed a click away from Sri Lanka Tourism’s website, support their efforts to the overall economy to the tourism sector.