Diethelm to manage Hilton Colombo Travel Counter

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Diethelm Travel Sri Lanka (DTSL), one of the country’s top destination management companies with over 30 years of experience, recently signed with one of Colombo’s premier five star hotel chains – Hilton Colombo – to manage its travel counter located within the hotel premises.

“We are extremely pleased to be affiliated with a prestigious international brand like the Hilton Colombo and look forward to serving its patrons and guests with a fully integrated transport solutions counter, which commenced operations on 1 January 2011,” said Harith Perera, Managing Director of Diethelm Travel Sri Lanka.

Diethelm Travel Sri Lanka has been a pioneer in managing hotel travel counters across the island and currently manages travel counters in three city hotels – Ramada Colombo, Taj Samudra and Hilton Colombo and two resort properties namely, Taj Exotica (Vivanta) Bentota and Taj Airport Garden in Seeduwa.

“While we as an organisation strongly focus on providing our customers with a quality-driven and customised Sri Lanka travel experiences, offering the best in transportation is a part of our responsibility. Hence, we have gone a step further by introducing the luxury SUV (KIA Sorento) as the vehicle of choice at the Hilton Colombo,” added Perera.

With a fleet of over 30 luxury vehicles, Diethelm Sri Lanka which adopted the working module of operating in partnership with individual entrepreneurs can now offer a heightened product while adding to the profile of the destinations with a top of the range SUV as a mode of transportation to visitors.

Diethelm Travel Group (DTG) is part of the Swiss owned organisation Diethelm Keller Group, which has operated international business with emphasis on Asia for almost a century and a half. DTG has defined industry standards and its geographic spread covers 11 countries through 28 offices, welcoming almost 500,000 customers from more than 103 countries and territories to the region.

Diethelm Travel Sri Lanka is a part of Hemas Holdings Plc which is a widely diversified Group of Companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange, Sri Lanka.