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Hiran Cooray to head PATA next year

 

Hiran Cooray

Jetwing Group’s Hiran Cooray, a well-known hotelier, will take over the reins of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) as its chairperson for 2010 -2011, the first time a Sri Lankan will hold this office.

PATA is a membership association based in Bangkok, which acts as a catalyst for the responsible development of the Asia Pacific travel and tourism industry. Mr Cooray takes over from PATA Chairperson for 2009 to 2010, Phornsiri Manoharan from Thailand who steps down at the association’s next AGM in April 2010 in Malaysia. A statement from Sri Lanka Tourism said Mr Cooray who took over as Managing Director of Jetwing Hotels in 1987, has built a reputation for creating specialist boutique hotels that cater to a fast expanding clientele.

He is also actively involved in repositioning Sri Lanka tourism, through driving Jetwing Hotels to attain higher overall standards and develop an innate understanding of the discerning visitor.

Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority and Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau, Bernard Goonetilleke, while congratulating Mr Cooray on this appointment, said that it is timely that a person of his calibre takes up this appointment in the coming year, when Sri Lanka as a whole could look forward to a stable environment with peace and harmony prevailing in the country.


 
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