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dc.contributor.author | Ruzaik, Fareena | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-25T05:34:05Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-25T05:34:05Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Ruzaik, F., (2020): Socio-Economic Challenges of Covid-19 in Sri Lanka—Special reference to human wellbeing, International journal of scientific and research publications (IJSRP) DOI: 10.29322/ ijsrp.11.02.2021.p11021, 2020.; Department Census and Statistics, (2012), Report on Census of population and housing of Sri Lanka, 2012. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | ISBN 978-624-5513-01-7 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://archive.cmb.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/70130/6240 | - |
dc.description | The book on COVID-19 : Impacts & Challenges in tourism sector: Consequences of Covid-19 Pandemic on Tourism Industry in Galle Fort-Sri Lanka, Editor(s) A.L.M.Aslam and Prof. M.I.M.Kaleel, ISBN 978-624-5513-01-7, published by Excellent publication, 2021 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The Galle Fort in Sri Lanka was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1988, however, it was declared as a historical heritage and special regulatory zone in 1978. This has become a cause for development of tourism and tourism-related activities in this area. The Covid-19 outbreak in the first quarter of 2020 in Sri Lanka affected tourism and hospitality services in deadly manner in terms of financial income. This has resulted a decline in the services sector significantly to 2.3% in 2019, compared to the growth rate of 4.6% in 2018. The Easter Sunday attacks on tourism related activities, which has led to negative results (i.e. -17.39%) on tourist arrivals in 2019 (CBSL, 2019). While Government was in the process of uplifting this situation, the tourism industry experienced various brunt situations; particularly unsteady political situation, subsequent presidential election in November-2019 and COVID-19 outbreak in China in December-2019. This has caused drawbacks in service sector including tourism industry for the second time in recent past in a massive level, after the civil war situation in the country. Soon after the end of inland civil war in 2009, the tourism industry shown a gradual progressive trend in Sri Lanka and tourism arrivals was recorded as 0.7 million in 2010 and it reached to a peak of 2.3 million in 2018. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Excellent publication | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Excellent publication | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 01;02 | - |
dc.subject | Galle Fort, Covid-19, tourism, challenges | en_US |
dc.title | COVID-19 : Impacts & Challenges in tourism sector: | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Consequences of Covid-19 Pandemic on Tourism Industry in Galle Fort-Sri Lanka, | en_US |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Department of Geography |
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