The Hon. (Prof.) Ruwan Ranasinghe
Plans are under way to identify 100 tourist attractions and allocate about Rs. 10 million per site to provide basic facilities and develop them as tourism products. Under the Clean Sri Lanka programme, rest centres for tourists are proposed, while social welfare measures for tourism sector workers, including a contributory pension scheme, are planned for the year.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Thank you for the important question. We are identifying 100 tourist attractions and plan to allocate about Rs. 10 million per site to develop basic facilities and upgrade them into tourist products. Under the Clean Sri Lanka programme, we plan to build rest centres for tourists. We also plan social welfare measures for those engaged in the tourism sector, including a contributory pension scheme, among other programmes this year.
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