Resort for local tourists in Anuradhapura

Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa laid the foundation stone for a resort for local tourists to be constructed by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority at the Anuradhapura Tourist Board on February 5.

The local tourist resort will have 80 rooms and is being constructed with all facilities. The amount to be spent for the resort is Rs 300 million.

A large number of foreign and local tourists arrive in Anuradhapura after the war ended.

Appointment letters for employment provided by Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management were presented by the minister to over 100 youths in the Anuradhapura district at the ceremony.

A training in hospitality and hotel management will be provided to the employees by the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management.

A number of courses related to tourism are being conducted through relevant centers by Sri Lanka Tourism and Hotel Management Institute. The courses are held at the Anuradhapura, Kandy, Bandarawela, Ratnapura and Colombo branches.

A special book complied by Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management to bring Rajarata recipes to international level was launched while the provision of water tanks for holy places in Anuradhapura took place under the patronage of Minister Rajapaksa.

Rs 3 million each were granted to places of religious worship, maintaining pilgrimage houses, to meet the water requirement of local tourists.

Agrarian Services and Wildlife Minister S M Chandrasena, MP Sehan Semasinghe, Sri Lanka Tourism Authority chairman Dr Nalaka Godahewa, attorney- at- law Pushpa Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management Director General Dr Suranga Silva were among the participants.