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Tourism is a key industry that attracts international tourists yearly. Foreigners visit Sri Lanka to see nature, wildlife, historical monuments, and indigenous culture. In 2018, tourist arrivals peaked at 2.5 million, who spent a total of US$5.6 billion in the country. However, the COVID-19 pandemic caused tourist numbers to decrease by 92% in ...
Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies. Atomic Energy Authority. Ayurvedic Medical Council. Board of Investment of Sri Lanka. Central Cultural Fund. Central Environmental Authority. Central Freight Bureau of Sri Lanka. Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation. Clothing Industry Training Institute.
India is the largest source of tourists with 246,922 arrivals, followed by UK with 123,992, latest data from the Sri Lanka Development Authority showed. Sri Lanka earned $1.5 billion from tourism ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: D. B. Wijetunga: Minister of Agriculture, Land and Forestry Conservation [25] [26] Salinda Dissanayake: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000: Chandrika Kumaratunga: Minister of Land Development and Minor Export Agricultural Crops [27] Anuruddha Ratwatte: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 14 September 2001
Sri Lanka earned $1.3 billion from tourism in the first eight months of 2023, up from $833 million dollars during the same period last year, according to the central bank. (Reporting by Uditha ...
National capital status. [edit] Colombo was the capital of the coastal areas controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British from the 1700s to 1815 when the British gained control of the entire island following the Kandyan convention. From then until the 1980s the national capital of the island was Colombo.
He worked for 15 years as Trading Manager - Hecht Heyworth & Alcan UK, Shipping Manager -Sherman Sons, and Sales Manager - Deldem Group HK before becoming Director of the Sri Lanka Tourist Board [5] in the mid-1990s. He was later seconded to the Sri Lankan foreign office and held diplomatic positions in Malaysia as Counsellor and Norway as ...
Sri Lanka, [b] historically known as Ceylon, [c] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.