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Song and dance for Kandalama anniversary
By Sanath Weerasuriya
‘Soba Saraniya 2004’, an exhibition, music and theatre presentation to mark the tenth anniversary of Kandalama Hotel will come alive at the D.S. Senanayake Maha Vidyalaya on June 25 and 26.

Kandalama Hotel, the only Green Globe certified hotel and one of the leading Eco-friendly hotels in the country involved in community service since its inception.

The exhibition and the variety fair will feature different stalls from other schools in the area as well as Medical Faculty in Peradeniya University, Engineering and Agriculture Faculties, IT and satellite station, Sri Lanka Tourism, Sri Lanka Police, Anti Narcotis Department, Anti AIDS Unit of the Kandy National Hospital, Sri Lanka Hotels School etc.

Prathiba Ranga Dance Troupe of the School will be the main attraction of the opening night. This dance troupe has won many medals and have become the best in the province. Magic show and Police Kennel show, ‘Raja Sabawa’ are some of the other attractions.

‘Kandalama Hotel is involved with many community development projects and D.S. Senanayake Maha Vidyalaya Development is one of the top projects of the hotel’, said Ravi Kurukulasuriya, Assistant Manager of the Hotel.

‘We have built a complete section of classrooms and now working on the water and sanitary project of the School. We have restored electricity, which was out of order for the pass eleven months’, Ravi went on explaining the Hotel’s involvement.

Kandalama Hotel has won the first global award for ‘Excellence of Service’ in the hotel industry and has been placed with the elitist top nine hotels worldwide by CNN, American Express and Taylor Nelson Sofres Hospitality and Leisure at the recently concluded awards ceremony at the International Investment Forum, Berlin.

By winning this outstanding award for the Indian Sub-Continent and Indian Ocean regions, Kandalama Hotel now takes its place among the world’s best.

Kandalama Hotel was awarded “Green Globe 21 Certified Hotel” status, the first of its kind in Asia, by meeting the requirements of Green Globe 21 standards.

The Green Globe 21 programme was inaugurated by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) to bring specific focus on the promotion of environmentally compatible development of the travel and tourism industry worldwide as called for by Agenda 21 of the Rio Earth Summit of 1992.

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