Tourism in Countries Emerging from Disaster; Focus on Lebanon and Sri Lanka | about Israel Lebanon War

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Source: paraisrael.com --- Tuesday, June 14, 2011
by JiPs?STiCk Tourism in Countries Emerging from Disaster; Focus on Lebanon and Sri Lanka Article by Sholto Thompson It is hard not to notice that tourism is increasingly the most important source of foreign exchange for developing countries around the world, and increasingly so for countries emerging from conflict. The death of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and subsequent end of the brutal civil war in May 2009 brought almost immediate attention to the development of tourism in Sri Lanka. According to the Sri Lanka Financial Times on May 31, 2009, ?everyone wants a piece of the action and foreign contractors are flowing into the city, already housed in five star hotels.? Similarly, following years of conflict, 2009 saw tourism boom in Lebanon with nearly 2 million tourists visiting the country, a record that exceeds even the glamorous years before the Civil War when Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. As Catherine Heald, co-founder and CEO of Remote Lands (the New York and Bangkok-based ultra-luxury Asia private tour operator), stated: ?Sri Lanka is one of the world?s perfect travel destinations? From its extreme physical beauty, to its diversity of experiences, to the kindness of its people, Sri Lanka truly has it all.? However, due to the serious internal strife that the country has faced over the past two-and-half decades and the devastating Tsunami of 2004 that killed over 40,000 people ...

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