Travel and tourism

In Sri Lanka, tourism is the third-largest export earner in the economy.

Total earnings
• 2018- $ 4.4 billions

• 2019- $ 3.7 billions

 2025 - $ 10 billions income

 Challenges
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2019- The impact of Easter Sunday attack

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2020- The impact of Covid 19 pandemic

•Impact on source market

•Impact on tourism resources

(Closure of hotels and restaurants, travel agencies,

travel shops and airlines)
•Travel bans, suspensions of flights and curfew

regulations
 How to Overcome the
Challenges Faced in the
new normal
• Starting to clean client hotels to deal with the coronavirus

• Cutting overhead

• Cleaning, sanitization, protective equipment