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Star spa for Tangerine by Elmo Leonard
A spar is being built on the property of Tangerine Beach Hotel, Kalutara, which will be managed by a yet unnamed foreign company. When completed in October the spa with 18 treatment-rooms will provide one of the best health-care services available in the island, the Tangerine Group of Hotels Contracts Manager, Bazeer Uvais said. Tangerine Beach, built in the early '80's is a 4-star, 166-room beachfront which lies adjacent to the 5-star Royal Palm Beach Hotel, also under the Tangerine Group. Royal Palms, lavished with timber is a 5-star, 124-room, luxury hotel. The spa will cater to both hotels. In the off-season month of August, Royal Palm was running at 95 percent occupancy, while Tangerine Beach managed a 55 percent residence. Tangerine Beach is being refurbished to meet the winter season. This hospitality unit has won many laurels in the past few years, the latest being the two-year-running Highly Commendable Awards by SAGA Holidays, UK. Among awards won by Royal Palm is the prestigious TUI, German, Holly Award, the Netherlands Place Quality Award and the Royal Thomas Cook (German) Primo Award. ########## Amadeus to roll out automated ticketing solution By Hiran H.Senewiratne Amadeus, the leading global distribution system (GDS) and travel industry technology provider announced the roll-out of the Amadeus automated ticketing solution for Jet Airways, Sri Lankan Airlines and Gulf Air in the Sri Lankan market. This service will be available to all Amadeus travel agents in Sri Lanka Amadeus Country Manager Sri Lanka and the Maldives Dennis Fonseka said . He said that the company is constantly reinventing its product line to suit the specific requirements of the Sri Lanka travel market of which the technological advancement is yet another 'first' from the market leader in the country. Fonseka said that this state-of -the-art technology will enable a travel agent to deliver an automated printed ticket to the Sri Lankan customer, which is a flexible and cost effective way of printing tickets and sales reports. "All that travel agency has to do is to feed in the simplistic Amadeus entries in the PNR and with a click of a button a ticket can be printed", he said. Managing Director Amadeus Indian Subcontinent Ankur Bhatia elaborating on this system said that the company believes in constantly raising the bar in terms of offering innovative travel solutions that provide intrinsic value to the travel fraternity. The Amadeus Automated technology is the latest deliverable in this direction for the Sri Lanka market, which will redefine the ticket issuing and delivery process by new levels of simplicity and cost-effectiveness for the travel agents, he added. Chief Operation Officer (COO) Jet Airways Peter Luethi said that partnership with Amadeus to deliver automated ticket technology, underlines the company's commitment to offer state-of-the-art leading technology solutions that provide an un-matchable experience to the end traveller. |
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