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[the head of the Confifi group which is a major player in the beach resort segment of Sri Lanka s tourist industry has said that it was high time that the country stopped fooling itself in the way it counted tourist arrivals. Furkhan has made this comment in the annual report for 2007/08 of Eden Hotel Lanka PLC where he said: `Last year, in my report I referred to the unreliability of the official tourist arrival statistics and referred to the urgent need to stop fooling ourselves and do the right thing by introducing credible statistical analysis of foreigners at entry level to the country. Nothing seems to have been done so far.` He said that in the context of the official figures, arrivals last year were down to 494,008 from the previous year s 559,603. Pointing out that `numbers can be deceiving,` Furkhan said that it was possible to seriously raise the question whether all arrivals classified as tourists are strictly tourists. `Or do they include Sri Lankans holding foreign passports and returning home for a holiday or family visits? Similarly are all Indian arrivals strictly tourists?` he asked. ] |
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