Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

The legendary Sinhala slowness didn't allow Sinathaka to realize that the Tamil Tigers said that Thank You with sarcasm also. The LTTE is upset because these two are playing politics while the Sinhalese are killing the Tamils. :))) LOL

These Modayans dont know that CHO was a famous Film Comedian before trying his luck in Politics !

COLOMBO, 9 October 2008 (IRIN) - Sri Lanka's struggling tourism industry - hard hit by the conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and government forces, and with security concerns increasing in Colombo, the capital - is banking on the island's traditional attractions to lure tourists back again.

Tourist arrivals have recorded alarming slides, according to industry officials. In August 2008, monthly tourist arrival figures fell by 31.4 percent compared to last year, according to Tourist Board statistics.

Hotel operators warn that the downturn in the industry will not be limited to the number of falling arrivals or occupation rates.

'Entire village economies can depend on a single hotel,' Dayal Fernando, the general manager at Amaya Reef Hotel, a beach front hotel at Hikkaduwa on the scenic southern coast, 100km south of Colombo, told IRIN.

'When the hotels lose business, the suppliers in turn feel the pinch and it will impact their employees and those in the transport sector or on the farms that provide food for the tourist trade,' Fernando said. 'Most of the hotels also employ a lot of people from the area and if retrenchments start, the local economies will be the first to feel the heat.'

Tourist arrivals have not increased significantly compared to 1982 despite a six-fold increase in tourist arrivals in East Asia and the Pacific during the same period,' the Bank stated in its World Bank Country Assistance Strategy for Sri Lanka released on 6 October

Kili front seems dull why?:))))