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In October 2007 according to Section 2 of the Tourism Act No. 38 of 2005, the Sri Lanka Tourist Board (Act No 10 of 1966) was replaced by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA). [4] The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority has classified Sri Lanka into several resort regions suitable for tourism development: [5]
SLTDA's grading is based on the criteria set by the World Tourism Organization. In 2011, the classified hotels accounted for 70% of the total room capacity in the industry. [2] A number of accommodation facilities that built during the British colonial era have been converted to high-class hotels later.
15 June – The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) confirms the hybrid model for the 2023 Asia Cup, with Pakistan set to host four matches and the remaining nine games to be hosted in Sri Lanka. [59] 19 June – Former Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama is appointed as Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, with effect from 1 August ...
Sinhala Buddhist nationalists within the Sri Lankan government, Buddhist clergy and Mahaweli department have deliberately targeted the Tamil majority northeast for state sponsored Sinhala colonisation, with the explicit intention to take the land into "Sinhala hands" away from the Tamils, [1] and to disrupt the Tamil-speaking continuity between ...
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon, [b] 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.
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [40] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [41]
In September 2022, a United Nations report said that the economic crisis is a result of officials' impunity for human rights abuses and economic crimes. [18] According to the Sri Lankan finance ministry, the country's foreign reserves had grown by 23.5% from US$1.7 billion in September 2022 to US$2.1 billion in February 2023, representing a US ...
The List of newspapers in Sri Lanka lists every daily and non-daily news publication currently operating in Sri Lanka. The list includes information on whether it is distributed daily or non-daily, and who publishes it.