Furkhan given Tourism Legend Award 2008

At the Presidential Tourism Award ceremony held recently Chairman of Confifi Group Prof. M. T. A. Furkhan was presented the Tourism Legend Award for 2008.

The late former Chairman of Jetwing Group Herbert Cooray and former Chairman of Aitken Spence Hotels Ratna Sivaratnam were also posthumously awarded the Tourism Legend Award.

In the late 1960s when there were only the Hikkaduwa Beach Hotel, Bentota Beach Hotel, Galle Face Hotel and Grand Oriental Hotel in Colombo, when hardly anyone expected tourism to flourish in Sri Lanka, Prof. M. T. A. Furkhan came forward and took the risk to start his first hotel in one of the most beautiful beach locations in Moragalla, Beruwala.