Rooms at 50% off to ads in Russia: Lanka woos tourists after attacks
Rooms at 50% off to ads in Russia: Lanka woos tourists after attacks To lure tourists back, Sri Lanka is hosting international sporting events and has mothballed a rule on minimum rates for hotel stays Current Affairs :-Sri Lanka’s battered the travel industry is attempting to charm guests back to shorelines betrayed after fatal Easter bombings, cutting inn rates and pushing advancements in key markets like Russia. The travel industry, which records for 5 percent of Sri Lanka’s total national output, failed after Islamist planes on April 21 assaulted lavish inns and temples, executing 250 individuals, including 40 outsiders. Britain, India and the US were among nations that issued tourism warnings for Sri Lanka, an assorted island with immaculate shorelines, antiquated Buddhist sanctuaries, and lavish slopes that Lonely Planet chose as its main 2019 goal. Those warnings added to a surge of retractions and a drop in appointments similarly as the storm commanded low seas...