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Sri Lanka to conduct ‘leakage survey’ to determine accurate tourism revenue

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) will start a leakage survey towards the end of this month to determine the accurate revenue from tourism, its chairman said. After the latest survey conducted early this year, the SLTDA has revised down per day spending from foreign visitor to US$148 from the early US$171 decided through a survey a decade ago. “There will be another survey coming up at the end of this month, the leakage survey,” Buddhika Hewawasam, the SLTDA Chairman told reporters on Monday at a media briefing held in Colombo. The survey is to determine how many…

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