Facilities

 

TRAINING RESTAURENTS

In order to facilitate practical restaurant sessions, the institute has two air-conditioned and carpeted mock-up restaurants. These restaurants are furnished with timber tables and chairs and are equipped with chillers, separate wash-up areas and stereo set ups. One of the wash-up areas consists of dish washers.

Moreover, separate steel cupboards which can be locked are allocated for each class which hold separate batch of crockery, cutlery, linen and glassware to be utilized during the practical sessions.

 

TRAINING KITCHENS

SLITHM has several training kitchens fully equipped with modern kitchen appliances. Cookery subjects under different courses starting from Apprenticeship level to Diploma level make use of these training facilities.

Practical work is an integral component of cookery related subjects of SLITHM courses. Well equipped kitchen facilities ensure that you get the best environment to master practical skills necessary for obtaining industry standard jobs. 

LIBRARY

The SLITHM Library is a source of information. It plays a vital role in catering to the information and educational needs of both course participants and professional staff of SLITHM and tourism sector.

The fully-fledged Library is well stocked with over 10,000 Books, over 1000 tourism reports and selected periodicals.

Among the library’s special collections are the world tourism Organization (WTO) publication, Training Manuals, Company Annual Reports, Periodicals Holdings, tourism statistics, students project reports and the valuable Sri Lanka Collection.

Library will be open week days during ordinary working hours (8.30 am. to 4.10 pm.)  

COMPUTER LAB

SLITHM consist of a well equipped computer laboratory on the 5th floor. The lab caters to the students’ current information technology needs with state-of-the-art stand alone computers with Internet facilities, enabling students to improve their knowledge and conduct research in a calm and comfortable environment.

Contact us

 

Acting Principal/Senior Lecturer : Ms.R.W.G.K.Wickramasinghe
E-mail: kumuduniw@slithm.edu.lk

Address: SLITHM, Warapitiya, Kundasale.
Telephone: 0812230900
Fax: 0812230900
Email: kandy@slithm.edu.lk

About SLITHM

 

ABOUT THE SRI LANKA INSTITUTE OF TOURISM AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT

The Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management (SLITHM) is the only Government approved premier Institute in Sri Lanka, which was established by the Government in 1964 to train young men and women in the complex field of Hospitality and Travel Industry, and is managed by The Ministry of Tourism Development and Christian Religious Affairs. Further, in order to facilitate students island-wide, provincial schools have been set up in Anuradhapura, Bandarawela, Pallekelle, Koggala, Ratnapura, and Kurunegala.

Following the ever expanding tourism sector in the country with developments in the travel & hospitality industry, the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management provides a sound professional training to cater for the fast developing needs of the local and international hotel and tourism industries with the best trained and most highly motivated management professionals. During the first 10 years, the focus was to train personnel for top and middle management position in the industry, supplemented with a programme of short courses at craft level, which provided the manpower for the various departments in the hospitality trade.

Over the years SLITHM has fine-tuned its programmes to meet the specific needs of Sri Lankas and Asias changing industry wide market needs and new schemes of training are introduced frequently with opportunities to specialise in industry specific areas. The scheme allows students to be more flexible in the choice of training and provides multiple entry – exit points. It also recognizes prior learning, which benefits those who have gained hands on experience in the industry and who wish acquire further knowledge through a sound professional qualification.