Sri Lanka sees spike in tourist arrivals this year

Rambo not the solution Need a Team Wednesday, 20 March 2024 12:51 PM

A country that has to depend on an aging President to have tourism success is a frightening situation. Tourism stakeholders should by now take matters into their own control and drive the sector development in a long term and sustainable manner.

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Premalal Perera Wednesday, 20 March 2024 01:02 PM

The problem is that our national airline is up and down. Mostly down.

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Mizaru Wednesday, 20 March 2024 01:04 PM

They buy a 3rd class ticket and travel 1st class on Sri Lanka’s cheap railway system. How many dollars are flowing in from these donkey bed tourist?

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Zeylan Nagathivu Wednesday, 20 March 2024 01:10 PM

Sri Lanka could have achieved more if not for the poor decisions made by their leaders based on insular thinking.

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Janaka Wednesday, 20 March 2024 01:33 PM

Will AKD travels be included in the statistics too?

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Terrence K Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:59 PM

It was an experience and very surprising to see reputed Hotels like Nippon Kafe at Slave Island which has short eats for sale at the counter charges a service charge and added to that a turnover tax. When questioned why should a service charge be applied since the items were displayed in an enclosure and we personally as customers carried the items in trays to the place where chairs and tables were available. The Tourism Ministry and the Consumer affairs authority should ensure that these hotels do not fleece customers especially erstwhil Sri Lankans living abroad who patronize these places and the question would arise what would they do when foreigners of other countries visit these places they will skin them dry. Over to you Minister of Tourism. Also this could have a debilitating effect for promoting tourism!!!!!!!

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So many Israeli and Ukrainians come here to start illegal businesses Wednesday, 20 March 2024 07:16 PM

What statistics are there of these new arrivals, and illegal activities. More drug dealing, and many other outside of law activities happening with these so called pale skinned tourists.

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SEVERAL PHOTOS ARE TAKEN DAILY AT THE BIA WHAT MAKES US WANT TO THINK A PHOTO IS PROOF OF THE NUMBERS SUPPOSEDLY HAVING ARRIVES IN THE COUNTRY THIS YEAR Wednesday, 20 March 2024 07:56 PM

CORRUPTION CONTINUES AND POCKETS ARE FILLED, WHILE WE SEE AND HEAR FIGURES OF ARRIVALS WHAT IS THE TOTAL OF EXPENDITURE OF THESE HUGE SO CALLED ARRIVALS IN THE COUNTRY? ECONOMISTS AREREGULARY CHANGING THEIR MINDS, APPEAR TO BE FICKLE AND TRYING TO RUN WITH THE HARE AND HUNT WITH THE HOUNDS.

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Returning Sri Lankan. Wednesday, 20 March 2024 10:46 PM

Many tourists arriving are Sri Lankan’s who have migrated and are returning for the big matches and auvuruddu with families. They don’t stay in hotels. This is not the result of the great work being done by the tourist board but by politicians who chased us out from our own land.

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Punchi Thursday, 21 March 2024 04:34 AM

The Israeli tourists are actually Israeli state and private intelligence operatives to establish cells to obtain information on Pakistan to possibly bomb Pakistani nuclear and other assets in event of an escalated Jew vs Islam war, spy on Indian assets to provide the information to the US and also sell the information to China, spy on Chinese military assets in our paradise and provide information to the US to maintain the supply of US bombs etc

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P Kunchithapathan Thursday, 21 March 2024 05:49 AM

President Ranil Wickremesinghe finds himself surrounded by notorious crooks and scammers who continue to impede the economic prosperity of the country. Despite the country's Treasury holding a mere 4 billion USD, these mafia elements persist in their efforts to import luxurious vehicles, further burdening the nation. The vehicle import association is backed by certain crooks working closely with the president is behind the scene. The government, meanwhile, continues to rely on IMF loans and shows a lack of direction in promoting entrepreneurship to enhance national productivity.

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Hadiran Thursday, 21 March 2024 08:34 AM

RW is yet to initiate local production in whatever field namely agriculture, industrial and service sector to correct our balance of payments issue in favour of Sri Lanka. Tourism is only one positive sign to in this regard ..

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Geet Thursday, 21 March 2024 09:53 AM

These figures are manupulated to misguide people from the reql picture. They always compare pandemic period(2021/2022) figures against current context. By now all the countries are back to normal after Covid pandemic. But Sri Lanka never recovers. Still SL is not paying the debts back. Its a huge amount. They hold loan repayment and shows it as strength of LKR currency. Utter bulshits. People can not understand the real situation

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SL Paradise Monday, 25 March 2024 05:44 PM

Our roadways are cluttered with dirt. Garbage is piled up like mountains in many places. Why is the Gov paying salaries to the staff of the Municipality for not doing their job properly. The food outlets are not monitored and they serve customers low quality food. McDonalds has closed down for the very reason. Some foreigners have vowed not to have a 2nd trip to Siri Lanka.

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