The tourism industry has stepped into help displaced people following a request made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to Tourism Minister Milinda Moragoda.
A statement from Sri Lanka Tourism said, tourism officials contacted the Tourist Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) and individual hoteliers this week.
City hotels including Cinnamon Grand, Trans Asia, Ceylon Continental, Galle Face Hotel, Hilton Colombo, Galadari Hotel, Taj Samudra Hotel, Holiday Inn, and Mt. Lavinia Hotel, readily brought in food supplies. Hotels to the north of Colombo, Club Hotel Dolphin, Browns Beach Hotel, Goldi Sands Hotel, Blue Oceanic Hotel, The Beach Hotel, and Ranwali Hotel as well as hotels to the south of Colombo, Bentota Beach and Serendib Hotels, contributed with providing edibles.
The Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (SLITHM) also assisted in this venture.
Food parcels and bakery items that have a longer shelf life, and could be handled and distributed easily, were dispatched by air to the north. |
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