Cinnamon Grand featured in stamp for World Tourism Day

Cinnamon Grand becomes first hotel in post war era to celebrate the country’s heritage with a first day cover depicting the unique Nuga Gama.

The Cinnamon Hotels and Resorts chain, Cinnamon Grand Colombo added another initiative to its growing portfolio of ‘firsts’ by becoming the first hotel in Sri Lanka to launch a first day cover marking World Tourism Day.

At a ceremony World Tourism Day held at Nuga Gama – the village in the city, the first day cover depicting the 200-year old banyan tree which is centric to Nuga Gama’s historic setting, the Gamagedara and the rustic bridge known as the Edanda in the village was issued by Post Master General M.K.B. Dissanayake.

The first day cover of this 30mm x 30mm Rs 5 stamp which falls into the personalized category was presented to Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa by Cinnamon Grand General Manager Rohan Karr.” Being World Tourism Day, it is important for us Sri Lankans to celebrate our rural roots and given that this year’s tourism theme is Linking Cultures, Nuga Gama becomes the ideal icon for us to link that theme to Sri Lanka’s heritage, traditions and cultural identity,” stated Karr, adding that the edanda depicted on the stamp is also symbolic of the theme of linking cultures and Cinnamon Grand’s link with its indigenous brand and rural roots.

“What we have at Nuga Gama is unique, a village in the city that brings the entire concept of the rural Sri Lankan village into the heart of a five star milieu within the environs of a benchmarked award winning city hotel that has its brand attributes, the promise of indulgence.

This stamp to us, pays tribute to what Nuga Gama brings to the country’s tourism offerings and also Cinnamon Grand’s indigenous roots within a country that has a multiple millennia civilisation and history,” he said.