A | Colombo, Oct 17 (UNI) Sri Lanka saw its earnings from the tourism trade fall in September for a second consecutive month due to weaker arrivals ahead of a more prospective season which has got underway from the start of October and ends in January.
According to the data available through September, tourism trade has brought in $ 53.6 million in foreign exchange, bringing the cumulative nine-month earnings to $ 946.4 million, the Daily Mirror reported on Monday.
The September earnings were lower than both July and August when the figures for those two months were $ 85.1 million and $ 67.9 million respectively.
In the same month a year earlier, the trade had earnings of $ 35.3 million from 13, 547 visitors when the country was under lockdowns, the newspaper said.
In this September, 29,802 tourists travelled to Sri Lanka which was below 37, 760 arrivals in August and 47,293 arrivals in July.
Sri Lanka’s monthly arrivals exceeded 100,000 through March as the country got off to a fine start to tourism with high hopes of the foreign exchange it could generate in 2022, after two years of near decimation of the industry due to the pandemic, the report said.
In the nine months, Sri Lanka has welcomed 526,232 visitors as tourists.
With the start of the winter season in Europe, Sri Lanka is looking at a possible increase in bookings, specially from countries such as Germany and Switzerland.
UNI MR。 Karachi, Oct 14 (UNI) In a veiled dig at Sindh's ruling party PPP, PTI Chairman Imran Khan said on Friday that the reign of "dacoits" in the province should come to an end.
Khan's remarks came during his visit to Karachi as he rallies his party workers for the anti-government "Azadi March", for which the date is yet to be announced. In a recent gathering, the PTI chairman told his workers to be ready as he could give the call for the march "at any time".
In his address today, the PTI chairman said that in the next general elections, his party would form governments in Sindh and the Centre.
"Sindh's resources are stolen, and they are siphoned out of the country," the PTI chairman said.
Khan urged Karachi's youth to come forward and partake in politics as political movements in the early days would begin from the metropolis, Geo news reports.
"Had there not been violence in Karachi, it would have progressed more than Dubai," Khan said as he vowed that now, things would change for the port city as "no power" could stop his party from getting its mayor elected in the upcoming local body elections.
"After the local body elections, we will also emerge successful in the general elections," he said.
The PTI chairman also said that the incumbent government, which came into power through a "foreign conspiracy", would not remain in office for long. "My nation has stood up for its future."
He said that lawyers understand the need for upholding the law and that is why they should support his cause.
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