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TheMoodieReport.com: "Alpha invites you to Travel Retail Village ceremony � 05/12/05
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Views of the first newly-built houses in the Travel Retail Village. Above, pictured left to right: Alpha Airports Group CEO Kevin Abbott, Diageo Sri Lanka's Rahul Kashyap, Project Manager Chryshantha and Alpha Asia Managing Director Paul Topping
SRI LANKA. Alpha Airports Group CEO Kevin Abbott recently paid a visit to the Travel Retail Village to see for himself the unique building project conceived by the Alpha Sri Lanka Tsunami Relief Fund. The target date for the official handover of the first house is 12 January 2006.

Abbott visited the site, which will eventually house 20 tsunami-hit local families, with some of the fund's trustees � including Alpha Asia Managing Director Paul Topping and Diageo Sri Lanka representative Rahul Kashyap.

Work is progressing well, said Topping, and the first ten houses should be ready for handover on 12 January.

Issuing an open invitation for anyone in the travel retail industry to attend the ceremony, Topping said: 'A number of travel retail supporters are joining the trustees and villagers for the event. If you are in the area, why not join in the celebrations?'

The Travel Retail Village foundation stones were laid in July, some six months after the tsunami tragedy struck. The Moodie Report visited the site in August to view the impressive progress first hand.

The fund aims to rehouse a whole village of tsunami-hit local people. The trustees said back in August that the fund had reached its target 'thanks to solidarity among the team and great determination � plus enormous global support from the travel retail industry which has"