Sri Lankan tourism continues fall

<p>Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals in September is down 27.2% compared to last year, reports Sri Lanka’s tourism bureau on Monday.</p> <p>This continues a record of poor performance for six months as foreign visitors are hesitant to visit the island after the Easter Sunday bombings in April.</p> <p>Sri Lanka's tourism industry has already come under fire from human rights organisations around the globe, which has often supported the country's military.</p> <blockquote><p> <strong>Read more here:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/%E2%80%98don%E2%80%99t-holiday-wa…">‘Don’t holiday with war criminals’ – SL Campaign re-launches ethical tourism campaign</a></strong> </p></blockquote> <p>Reuters notes that since the attack, the number of foreign visitors has fallen to the lowest level since the end of the country’s civil war a decade ago.</p> <p>According to the data, last year arrivals to Sri Lanka were 149,08 but this has fallen to 108,575 and marked a sixth consecutive monthly fall. In the five months from May to September tourism fell 44.4% to 468,737 from 843,569 a year earlier.</p> <p>Read more <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/sri-lanka-economy-tourism/sri-lanka-tour…">here.</a></p>