24/06/2007 - The Island
B. Sirisena Cooray, Chairman, Premadasa Centre presenting the first copy of a book on Ranasinghe Premadasa to Tourism Minister Milinda Moragoda at yesterday’s ceremony to mark the 83rd birth anniversary of the former President at New Town Hall. The book ‘Ran Piyawara’ contains essays by school children on President Premadasa and his vision. At extreme right is Kalyana Godage, an author and a former ambassador.
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22/06/2007 - Daily Mirror
Corporation Act repealed despite JVP protests
(by Gihan de Chickera and Kelum Bandara)
...Tourism Minister Milinda Moragoda said 10 percent of CHC shares sold by the Bank of Ceylon would be distributed among the employees – a clause which all trade unions had agreed to. He added that the major shareholder had agreed to offer voluntary retirement, or the ‘golden handshake’, to employees who wish to leave the CHC prematurely...
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13/06/2007 - Daily News
Oogling and Tourist Police
(by Dr. Tilak S. Fernando)
...With the passage of time, the Tourist Police activities seemed to have subsided for unknown reasons...the Minister of Tourism and Minister of Defence have taken swift and remedial action to re-establish the New Tourist Police Division...The initial establishment of a Tourist Police in Sri Lanka was the brainchild of the late President R. Premadasa...
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12/06/2007 - e Turbo News (www.travelindustryreview.com/news/5585)
Tell the truth, Sri Lankan tourism minister says
(by eTN Staff Writer)
…“Safety of travelers is a priority on the Sri Lanka Tourism agenda,” said Minister Milinda Moragoda advising all tourism stakeholders including the media to be honest and credible in how they portray Sri Lanka…
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02/06/2007 - Daily News
Tourist Police re-established
(Dharma Sri Abeyratne)
COLOMBO: The Tourist Police division was re-established...a joint effort by the Sri Lanka Tourist Board, Tourism Ministry and the Police Department...opened by Minister Moragoda...network of tourist police units...at key tourist attractions to ensure...a hassle-free and enjoyable holiday...
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30/05/2007 - The Morning Leader
Milinda moves on Kalpitiya project
(by Sunalie Ratnayake)
Tourism Minister Milinda Moragoda has taken the initiation to conduct the preliminary round of talks held last week, with regard to developing the Kalpitiya area as a tourist attraction...initial step taken by Moragoda was appointing a committee that would be in charge of the development project...
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27/05/2007 - Sunday Island
Editorial - Hotels need a lifeline
...tourism is going through a bad time...Among the pluses that President...Rajapaksa...has..is...obtained the services of many UNPERs...better able to do the jobs...assigned to them than...their predecessors. Tourism Miniser Milinda Moragoda is one of these.
He, together with officials of his ministry...meeting the various industry associations...to brief...problems confronting the tourism sector...
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22/05/2007 - Daily News
Boost for pilgrim tourism
(by Ramani Kangaraarachchi)
COLOMBO: Tourism Minister Milinda Moragoda yesterday appointed an Advisory Committee of Buddhist priests to advise the ministry in
promoting pilgrim tourism locally and internationally...
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30/04/2007 - Daily Mirror
Tourism Minister attempts to win back confidence of airlines
In the immediate aftermath of the LTTE air attack on two fuel storage facilities in Colombo in the wee hours of Sunday morning the tourism ministry...Tourism Minister Milinda Moragoda summoned a meeting with civil airline managers to brief them on the situation early...
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15/04/2007 - The Nation
Ministry of Tourism appoints advisory committees
The Ministry of Tourism is in the process of setting up several advisory panels and working committees on the directions of Minister Milinda Moragoda.The idea is to broaden the tourism stakeholder network almost to the grass roots levels in the country and to get actively involved all interested individuals and agencies to work on a common platform for the development of tourism...
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