Targets for 2024 are 2.2million tourists and US$ 4billion in revenue – Minister of Tourism

Minister of Tourism, Lands,  Sports and Youth Affairs Harin Fernando, participating at a press briefing held at the President’s Media Centre today (31) under the theme ‘Collective Path to a Stable Country’ said that he expected 2.2 million tourists to visit Sri Lanka  in 2024 and bring in a revenue of US$ 4billion.

He revealed that the main source markets would be India, Russia, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia and China while the government would be wooing  more  tourists from Japan, South Korea and Australia.

Minister Fernando said that Sri Lanka has about 50,000 star class hotel rooms and another 40,000 rooms in guest houses, rest houses and home stay. He said that the government intends to increase the number of rooms by empowering youth to engage in the home stay program.