Bonita Odayar from Amadeus Lanka was unanimously elected as the 21st President of the Travel Trade Sports Club (inaugurated in 1976), at the 42nd Annual General Meeting held on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at Liberty Ball Room, Ramada Colombo. Bonita Odayar took over the Presidency from Prabath Harshakumar from Walkers Tours (2016-2018).

Dilshan Gnanapragasam from Resplendent Ceylon is the new General Secretary.

President elect, Bonita Odayar, a product of Holy Family Convent is a Champion athlete in sprint / field events, Motor Sports, a Netball Player and a shooter; she is also the only civilian women’s Champion Shooter in all three guns – the pistol, the rifle and the shot gun.

Whilst Bonita started off her career at Sparklink Travels and then moved to American Express, she joined the TTSC as a committee member eight years ago.

Office Bearers for the term 2017/18 (all unanimously elected)

President: Bonita Odayar (Amadeus Lanka Pvt. Ltd) Immediate Past President: Prabath Harshakumar (Walkers Tours)  Vice Presidents: Suranjith De Fonseka (Hemas Leisure Travel)  Aviation Sector (representing Hotels): Anil Hapugoda (Aitken Spence Travels PLC (representing Travel Agents): Shan Perera (Singapore Airlines) (representing Airlines) General Secretary: Dilshan Gnanapragasam (Resplendent Ceylon)  Assistant Secretary: Mani Sugathapala (Citrus Leisure)Treasurer: Chinthaka Daluwatte from Mt. Lavinia Hotel Group  Asst. Treasurer: Ravi Wisidagama from Green Holiday Centre.  Social Secretary: Cammy Gunasekera from Viluxur Holidays.  General Committee: Asanka Fernando from Cinnamon Grand Colombo; Adrian Jansz from Serendib Leisure Hotels & Ramesh Vidanarachchi from Ramada Colombo (all representing the Hotel Sector), Bandula Vithana from Jetwing Group; Sasala Dissanayake from Walkers Tours & Anushka Perera from Connaissance de Ceylan (all representing the Travel Agents Sector) Nilina Pathirana from Sri Lankan Airlines; Chaminda Perera from Emirates & Ajit Weeratunga from Saber Travel Network (all representing the Airlines Sector)  Support Staff: Sunethra Blok, Administrative Secretary, Eddie B. Silva, Accountant & Tyrone Perera, Sports Events & Media Publicity Co-ordinator.

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