Indians among top tourists to Lanka

Emerging from the shadows of militancy, Sri Lanka’s booming tourism industry recorded another 30 per cent jump for the first two months of this year, with Indians topping the list of holiday makers in the island.

Hotel shares push Sri Lanka bourse up; rupee falls

Sri Lanka's shares rose on Friday led by hotel shares on the anticipation of a post-war tourism expansion, while the rupee closed weaker on importer demand for dollars.

Sri Lanka hotels prepare for tourist arrivals

 With the end of the three-decades long war in last May Sri Lanka is seeing its tourism industry flourishing once again.
The tourist arrivals have been steadily increasing since the end of the war and recent data from the Tourist Board has shown that Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals jumped by 50.3 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared to a year earlier.