COLOMBO: Travel industry players in Sri Lanka are hoping to attract more tourists from Saudi Arabia as the island nation grapples with an ongoing crisis in its tourism economy. Tourism has long been a key source of capital for Sri Lanka. In 2018 the tourism sector accounted for $4.4 billion 5.6 percent of the country’s GDP. But this dropped to just 0.8 percent in 2020, as
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will focus on sending more skilled manpower to the Kingdom and inviting Saudis to tap into its family tourism market, Colombo’s new consul in Jeddah has said, in a fresh bid to help kickstart its struggling economy. Remittances and tourism are the main sources of the island nation’s foreign inflows. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disastrous impact on Sri