The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
Hon. Ravi Karunanayake requested detailed data from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism on Sri Lanka’s tourism sector, including hotel capacity and employment by district, Airbnb and Booking.com activity, tourist arrivals and earnings since 2010, tax payments, average stays, repeat visitors, and source-country arrivals from 2020 onward. He also asked the Minister to identify weaknesses and negative impacts in the tourism industry and explain the steps taken to address them.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Tourist Arrivals from 2010: Details
¶ 02 467/2025
¶ 03 asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism:
¶ 04 (a) Will he state, separately, the - (i) number of registered star class hotels, years in operation, room capacity, direct and indirect employees in each district from 2020 to date; (ii) number of Airbnb registered websites for the said period; (iii) tourists arrivals, total earnings and per capita earnings from 2010 to date; (iv) number of Booking.com institutions operating; and (v) amount earned and taxes paid by them?
¶ 05 (b) Will he also state the - (i) average stay of tourists visiting; (ii) number of annual repeat visitors; and (iii) number of arrivals from Singapore, Thailand, Japan, USA, China, UK, Malaysia, Dubai, India, Turkiye, Indonesia, Australia, Vietnam, France and Canada in each year from 2020 to date, separately?
¶ 06 (c) Will he further state the - (i) weaknesses of the tourist industry; (ii) negative impacts thereof; and (iii) steps taken to ameliorate such weaknesses?
¶ 07 (d) If not, why?
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 ·No. 23546 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 May 2026. No. 23546. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19703