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Sri Lanka’s tourism industry has spent the past few years rebuilding — new routes, new markets, a renewed pitch to the higher-spending traveller. It is encouraging, then, to see the authorities taking a positive interest in reviewing the excise regulations that shape what a hotel can pour, stock, and sell. Much of this framework has […]
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Yala is Sri Lanka’s best-known wildlife park. It is also its most crowded and worst managed one, and its reputation for this is now damaging Sri Lanka’s tourism brand internationally. Every few years a new committee studies the same problems, writes the same list of fixes, and then very little happens. DWC has not enforced […]
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Sri Lanka's tourism sector faces a quiet crisis that most businesses haven't noticed yet. While we focus on recovering visitor numbers...
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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism was identified as the third largest and fastest growing source of foreign currency...
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Sri Lanka has extraordinary natural and cultural assets ranging from pristine beaches and lush tea country to rich biodiversity and heritage sites. Yet it continues to attract relatively little foreign direct investment (FDI) in tourism, especially when compared to regional peers such as Maldives, Thailand, and Vietnam. The core reason of this is simple: Sri […]
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