BOC invites Raffles to advice on GOH
Bank of Ceylon Chairman Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe met senior
executives from the reputed heritage hotel group, Raffles Hotels and
Resorts, to discuss options to restore the Grand Oriental Hotel back to
its former glory and promote it as the oldest colonial hotel in Sri
Lanka whic
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Seen with Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe at GOH are Raffles
Hotels and Resorts President John Johnston and
Ken Flockhart (on right). |
The BOC Chairman hopes to undertake the upgrade with the assistance
of the government and have the hotel ready in time for the Commonwealth
Heads of Government meeting, to be held in Sri Lanka in November 2013.
Raffles Hotels and Resorts have a history dating back to the late 19th
century when they opened the historic Raffles Hotel in Singapore in
1887. |
