Sri Lanka will soon resume flights from Jaffna to India. President Ranil Wickremesinghe told reporters on Tuesday. He also asked tourism authorities to develop plans to draw in the most Indian tourists. Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority announced plans to bring in 800,000 visitors during the remainder of the year.
Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was instructed to restart flight services at Jaffna’s Palaly airport to Indian destinations in order to ease travel. The issue was discussed at an event with key players in the industry. India has been re-established as Sri Lanka’s most popular tourist destination, with 5,562 visitors, while more than 3,723 tourists came via the UK.
However, the number of tourists arriving from abroad in Sri Lanka in May plunged by nearly 52 percent in comparison to April and by 72 percent compared to March. The decrease in tourist numbers is due to the political and economic conditions in Sri Lanka, with major market nations releasing negative travel warnings.
Sri Lanka is currently facing the most severe economic crisis since its independence from Britain in 1948. The current economic downturn has caused an extreme shortage of vital things like food, medicine, cooking gas, toilet paper, fuel, and even matches. Sri Lankans were forced to wait in long lines outside shops to purchase cooking gas and fuel.
The economic decline of the island nation was blamed in large part on the Covid-19 virus, which led to the tourism revenues of the island nation and the decline in remittances from abroad.
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