it took a long while for sri lankas tourism industry to start recovering from the blow to its tourism industry after the 2019 easter bombings while the easing of covid19 restrictions brought hope in 2022 the island nation is now battling an acute economic crisis akshay marwah a retail banker from ghaziabad who returned from a holiday in galle a week ago shares the resort we were staying at had almost eight hours of power outage daily and internet service was also erraticread alsoleisure bookings to sri lanka impacted by crisis as desi holidayers have a rethinknew delhi indian holidayers are having a rethink about going to sri lanka following the economic crisis and declaration of emergency in the emerald island while airlines are still operating flights between various indian cities and colombo the loads are fast dropping and they may take a call onindians rethink holidaying in lankanew delhi indian holidayers are having a rethink about going to sri lanka following the economic crisis and declaration of emergency in the emerald island while airlines are still operating flights between various indian cities and colombo they may take a call on pruning or suspending serviceswe had been reading about things on social media and our family had also been concerned so we cut our trip short by four days and returned with the holiday season coming up we speak to travel agents and travellers about how their travel plans are panning out considering the ongoing eventsautos queue at petrol pumps in sri lanka amidst fuel crisiszero new enquiries for sl travelwith the onset of the forex crisis the end of march and april bookings have seen a drop affecting the tourism industry which contributes to almost five per cent of sri lankas gdp sarang bhide owner of sarang global tours and travel operator from pune shares new bookings for sri lanka has gone down to zero and the people who had booked for the latter half of april and may are waiting for a few more days to see how the situations pans out in the country corporate bookings to the country have also been put on hold due to the economic crisis while we have received a couple of cancellation requests most of our customers are preferring to take a wait and watch approach shares rajeev kale president and country head for mice segment at thomas cook india limited tourist bookings down by 40 local resorts and tour agencies in sri lanka are also struggling to get tourists from almost 6065 per cent occupancy in early march we are now down by 40 per cent tourists who are already at the resort are trying to adjust to the power blackouts and increased food prices but there are no new enquiries shares the spokesperson of an island resort based in alugthama talking about getting supplies for the inhouse guests he adds that the resort staff go out before dawn to source fuel for generators and other supplies before it runs