Sri Lanka appoints Tourism Advisory Committee

Some of Sri Lanka’s biggest names in the leisure industry have been appointed to a new Tourism Advisory Committee by the government to drive the tourism agenda in the country.

The 14-member committee is chaired by Dileep Mudadeniya, a former managing director of Sri Lanka Tourism and currently senior vice president of John Keells Holdings. Other members include SriLankan Airlines CEO Richard Nuttall; Nuwaraeliya Hotels Company deputy chairman/managing director Gerard George Ondaatjie; Connaissance de Ceylon and Thema Collection chairman/managing director Chandra Wickramasinghe; Galle Face Hotels group vice president Nihal Muhandiram; and three heads of state agencies involved in tourism.

The mandate of the committee is to advise the government on strategic and sustainable tourism development, so as to enhance the growth of the tourism industry in…