Tourism on path to recovery

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Tourist arrivals which plunged to nominal levels following the Easter Sunday attacks on April 21 are now slowly recovering. The picture shows a tourist feeding an elephant in Uda Walawe.
Sri Lanka earned US $ 4.4 billion from tourism in 2018, and was targeting US $ 5 billion earnings this year. Pic by Pradeep Pathirana

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Tourism on path to recovery

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