SLITHM Graduation Ceremony

The 37th Graduation Ceremony of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (SLITHM) was held at the BMICH recently.

SLITHM, formerly known as the Ceylon Hotel’s School (CHS), boasts of a rich history of innovation, growth and change. Inaugurated in 1966, by the late Minister Dharmasiri Senanayake, CHS earned local and global recognition as the premier institute for Hospitality and Tourism management education in Sri Lanka and the region that has produced leaders for employment in the industry not only nationally but also internationally. It has been the backbone of the Hospitality industry of Sri Lanka from its infancy, producing the required professional human resources for the Hospitality industry. . Chief Guest of the occasion was John Amaratunga, Minister of Tourism Development, Lands and Christian Religious Affairs. The Guest of Honour Desmond Fernando and Paddy Vithana, Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism were there to grace the Graduation Ceremony.

‘We are also proud to have with us today, as Guest of Honour Desmond Fernando, an Alumnus from the inaugural batch who passed out in 1969. Won a scholarship to Germany and returned to join the faculty of the then Ceylon Hotel School and continued as a faculty member for a very long time heading the Food and Beverage faculty. I happened to belong to the sixth batch being an Alumni of SLITHM passing out in 1974. I had the good fortune of being one of his students’ said Sunil Dissanayake, the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management.