{"id":126130,"date":"2022-06-10T14:35:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126130"},"modified":"2022-06-10T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:35:45","slug":"need-to-look-for-new-avenues-to-attract-tourists-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/10\/need-to-look-for-new-avenues-to-attract-tourists-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to look for new avenues to attract tourists &#8211; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>New approaches should be found to attract tourists President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said at a progress review meeting of the Ministry of Tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was held at the President\u2019s House in Colombo Fort today (June 10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 4 million people are directly and indirectly involved in the tourism industry. The tourism industry, which had been crippled by the Easter attack and the COVID-19 epidemic, was on the edge of recovery but was reeling from the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Rajapaksa said that the tourism sector needs to be rapidly uplifted as it is an important sector that affects the national economy as well as the job security of a large number of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President emphasized the importance of correcting misinformation about the country by Sri Lankan Missions overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President also instructed to address the fuel problem faced by the people engaged in the tourism industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officials also pointed out the need to address the gas shortage faced by large, medium and small-scale hoteliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also discussed the possibility of tourism industry gaining more attention by promoting our attractive locations for films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief of Staff to the President Anura Dissanayake, Secretary to the Ministry W.A. Chulananda Perera, Heads of Line Institutions and others officials were present at the discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana New approaches should be found to attract tourists President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said at a progress review meeting of the Ministry of Tourism. The meeting was held at the President\u2019s House in Colombo Fort today (June 10). More than 4 million people are directly and indirectly involved in the tourism industry. The tourism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gotabaya-rajapaksa","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}