Renton de Alwis
Chairman, Sri Lanka Tourism
Former Vice President – Asia, Pacific Asia Travel Association
Former Secretary General CEO, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce
Former CEO, National Travel Agents Association, Singapore.

Travel and Tourism today is a lifestyle activity for most of the world's people. Having worked hard to achieve, they seek to relax, explore and enjoy the most exotic places they choose to travel. They seek to indulge in the most exciting experiences, meet and interact with interesting people, be pampered with caring service and be delighted with the best in food, wine and song.
We in the Travel and Tourism industry therefore can not be content with merely selling our products and services as most other operators of industry do. We have to resolve to be a special breed…. A special breed of people who sell, people beautiful dreams. As ‘Dream Sellers', we need to be equipped not only with the best of skills in all areas of our industry, but be caring people who are able to share our love with others who seek it. Our customers are dreamers and we, those who fulfil those dreams.
The area of the culinary arts form the very core of the hospitality segment of our industry. Without those with specialised culinary skills no ‘Dream Seller Team' will be complete. I believe what Chef Ianthi and the Dream Team at the Win-Stone Hotel School have set out to do is just that. It is to create, from those among you, a top team of ‘Dream Selling' culinary experts.
The Win-Stone Hotel School also fills a void that exists in the hospitality training sector today. It is true that there are several other schools that exist in the industry,but none including the most experienced operated by the state sector, have been able to deal with the need to create a top dream selling culture, among culinary experts. They may posses skills but turning that into a desirable culture to serve visitors to delight them is another story.
Knowing the top team at the Win-Stone Hotel School, I am confident that they want to be different. You as a seeker of the best in hospitality training will do well, to also seek the best in training and be a winning “Dream Seller'.