Tourists Arrivals to Sri Lanka Skids

Colombo - Headline of Serious Rights Violations in Sri Lanka such as the enforced abductions, disappearances, internal displacements, and unlawful killings of civilians in the north and east of Sri Lanka and number of rebels’ attacks in South of the Sri Lanka splashing as breaking news in the world capitals also creating negative image for the tourism industry in Sri Lanka for some time and tourists arrivals to Sri Lanka skids deeper.

Many countries including the United States of America, Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany issued many travel warning to its citizens via a statement released in their web site after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had attacked and overrun a military post inside Sri Lanka's most popular Yala wildlife sanctuary on October 15, 2007 and the daring attack by the rebels on another hot tourist must visit city will only to reinforce their call again to their citizens to avoid traveling to Sri Lanka altogether.

Britain, Germany, France, Italy and New Zealand, some of the major countries that generate the majority of high spending visitors fell 5.8 percent in last month according to the date from the Sri Lankan tourist industry.

The Sri Lanka tourism industry is considered to be one of the top foreign exchange earners next to the tea export for Sri Lanka has suffered continuously for past two years.

Although Sri Lanka says it mission for tourism in Sri Lanka is to delight foreign visitors and its customers and to build their loyalty to Sri Lanka as a favorite destination for them, hardly recent escalating violence in the country, enforced rights violations, daring military attacks by the rebels in the South of the country and high profile visits by the world dignitaries to investigates the rights violations in the country Sri Lanka doing no good to the image of the country and country speedily heading towards to its disastrous ends as a favorite holiday destination, says a political observer.