Upul Dharmadasa appointed Chairman Hilton Hotel
Friday, February 17, 2023
Former chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) Upul Dharmadasa, has been appointed as the new Chairman of Hotel Developers (Lanka) PLC, which operates the Hilton Hotel, Colombo. Dharmadasa was a student of the Ceylon Hotel School specializing F & B, further, currently sitting for a MBA (UK). Following his migration to USA with the Air Ceylon experience he excelled in the travel industry in Los Angeles through the well-known name brand in the USA under Upul’s Travel Service. By servicing the approximately 750,000 Sri Lankans living in the USA and 400,000 in Canada. Advancing along with the technology he developed Utravel.com in 2017 based in Los Angles now being available and operated around the world as a Global Travel booking engine.
He is also a former member of the hospitality sector of Sri Lanka and served at Hotel Intercontinental, Holiday inn, and Oberoi, and was Head of the Food and Beverages on board Lanka Kalyani, the cadet training ship of the Ceylon Shipping Corporation. He is an ex-employee of the Air Ceylon which was the National Carrier of Sri Lanka.