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the victims of recent bomb blasts at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo. —AFP"/></div> <figcaption class="media__caption ">Relatives pay their respects in front of the graves of the victims of recent bomb blasts at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo. —AFP </figcaption> </figure> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> </div> </div>   <div class="template__main clearfix modifier--open px-1 modifier--widedefault modifier--blockquote-center-narrow ">   <div class="story__content pt-1 mt-1"><p>The cancellations started before the dust had settled on the hotels and churches hit by suicide bombers in Sri Lanka as tourists and operators pressed the panic button.</p> <p>Sanath Ukwatte, chairman of the colonial-era Mount Lavinia hotel in Colombo, said he lost about 30 percent of his bookings within days of the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 253 people.</p> <p>Many holidaymakers got the first plane out of Colombo after the blasts — at least 40 foreigners were among the dead — raising fears for a tourism industry that had managed to move on from the shadows of a decades-long civil war.</p> <p>The United States, Britain, Australia, India and Israel have all warned their nationals against visiting, while the Netherlands is organising a special flight to evacuate hundreds of Dutch tourists.</p> <p>On Friday, European travel giant TUI announced it had stopped taking bookings for the South Asian country.</p> <p>And the crisis could get worse before it gets better for the island nation, whose palm-fringed beaches and mountain tea plantations were recently named the best place to visit in 2019 by the Lonely Planet guide.</p> <h2 id="5cc56b7f94ffe">Armed guards</h2> <p>Sri Lanka's Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera had hoped tourism would earn a record $5.0 billion this year, up from $4.4b in 2018. He thinks the attacks could now see the country lose up to one third of that.</p> <p>Tourism accounts for about five per cent of the economy, with Britain, India and China the main markets. Official figures show tourist arrivals in the first quarter of this year jumped 4.6pc to 740,600 from 2018.</p> <p>But with armed guards now a fixture in some Colombo hotels and cancellations flooding in after the carnage unleashed by coordinated suicide attacks, Samaraweera must work out a rescue plan for establishments now facing ruin.</p> <p>"We expect a 30pc drop in arrivals and that means a loss of about $1.5b in foreign exchange," he said on Friday.</p> <p>Ruchir Desai, a senior investment analyst with Asia Frontier Capital in Hong Kong, said the next year will be a tough one for Sri Lanka.</p> <p>"Given the scale of the attack I still think you would see a negative impact on the industry," Desai told <em>AFP</em>.</p> <p>"It should recover," he added, "obviously it depends on the steps the government takes to improve stability". </p> <p>Ukwatte, who is also president of the Hotels Association of Sri Lanka, hopes Sri Lanka can "bounce back". Sri Lanka's tourism is heading into its low season, and Ukwatte believes if confidence can be restored by October or November, "then we will be able to revive the industry with European winter travellers" </p> <p>Finance Minister Samaraweera highlighted how other countries hit by the militant Islamic State-inspired attacks rebuilt their image and convinced tourists to come back.</p> <p>“Typically, countries that suffer isolated IS-style attacks see tourism recovering within one-to-two years, as long as root causes are addressed and security measures taken are well communicated,” the minister said.</p> <p>He pointed to tourist industries in Belgium, France, Spain and Tunisia as countries which had all managed to bounce back after suffering indiscriminate terror attacks.</p> <h2 id="5cc56b7f950b1">Bad message</h2> <p>Much will depend on how the government gets its message across, observers said.</p> <p>Canadian adventure tourism promoter Wade Campbell criticised the government's communications after the attacks, particularly a top defence ministry official — who has since resigned — who said Sri Lankan hotels should have arranged their own security to avoid being hit.</p> <p>Danger is "a perception thing," said Campbell, who is now looking at redirecting bookings to rival destinations like Nepal.</p> <p>Italians Donatella Papi and her husband Maurizio Fantappie were on a 25-day holiday in eastern Sri Lanka when the bombers struck.</p> <p>"My husband wanted to leave after the bombings, he suggested going to Thailand. 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But Sri Lanka will recover. Indians will still go there for holidays. Pakistanis really did not go there too much preferring biraadar mulaks or if you're rich the "hated west". Anyway I don't think Pakistanis would find it easy to get visas for Sri Lanka now. Indians do not need a visa.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Vikas, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478962/up-7010676">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478962/up-7010676">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010944" data-id="2"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">RC</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T15:35:24+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T15:35:24+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 03:35pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>The South Asian region needs some good news NOW to clutch as straws for optimism for future</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="RC, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478962/up-7010944">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478962/up-7010944">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011005" data-id="3"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">SATT</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T15:59:58+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T15:59:58+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 03:59pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Once LTTE was looking undefeatable but Sri Lanka with it's will power crushed them.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="SATT, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478962/up-7011005">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478962/up-7011005">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011597" data-id="4"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Gordon D. Walker</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T19:25:22+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T19:25:22+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:25pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Sri Lanka will recover...</p> <p>Gordon D. Walker</p> <p>Canada</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Gordon D. 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text-black font--georgia ">There are a series of interlinked reasons for the disparity in coverage. </div> </article>  </div> </div><div class="clear--both"> </div></div> <div class=" slideshow--list px-0 col-sm-8 col-12 float-left mt-2"> <div class="clear--both"> <div class="slideshow--row__item active pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="0" style="float:left;width:24%;margin-right:1.3333333333333%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478905" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478905/employment-for-all"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc4dab7bb8bd.jpg" alt="Employment for all"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478905" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478905/employment-for-all" class="story__link">Employment for all </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/authors/8201/asad-zaman">Asad Zaman</a></span> </div>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">We must create jobs tailored to the people. </div> </article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="1" style="float:left;width:24%;margin-right:1.3333333333333%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478904" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478904/a-long-term-forest-policy"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc4da0edeab7.jpg" alt="A long-term forest policy"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478904" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478904/a-long-term-forest-policy" class="story__link">A long-term forest policy </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/authors/8443/haseeb-ahmed">Haseeb Ahmed</a></span> </div>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">Forest conservation should feature prominently in our scientific and political discourse. </div> </article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="2" style="float:left;width:24%;margin-right:1.3333333333333%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478902" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478902/bri-a-historic-opportunity"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc4d90c8590d.jpg" alt="BRI: a historic opportunity"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478902" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478902/bri-a-historic-opportunity" class="story__link">BRI: a historic opportunity </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/authors/368/munir-akram">Munir Akram</a></span> </div>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">Not one of America’s Asian allies has the stomach to confront China, their largest trading partner. </div> </article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="3" style="float:left;width:24%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478675" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478675/bombs-backlash"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc3ab42ad1ba.jpg" alt="Bombs &amp; backlash"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478675" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478675/bombs-backlash" class="story__link">Bombs & backlash </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/authors/271/irfan-husain">Irfan Husain</a></span> </div>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">There is no history of discord between Sri Lankan Muslims and Christians. </div> </article>  </div> </div><div class="clear--both"> </div></div> </div> <div class="border-3 border-r-0 border-b-0 border-l-0 border-solid border-black mx-sm-2 mx-0"> <h3 class="my-2"><a class="font--playfair-display size-nine leading-tight text-black-light" href="/web/20190428164908/https://www.dawn.com/opinion">Editorial</a></h3> <div class=" slideshow--list mt-2"> <div class="clear--both"> <div class="slideshow--row__item active pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="0" style="float:left;width:15.666666666667%;margin-right:1.2%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" 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