Sri Lanka has earned a robust income of US$ 328.3 million from the tourism trade in July at a level nearly equal to what the country gets from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for six months for raising taxes of its people and corporations and perhaps on their properties and capital gains, which will most likely continue under any new President favoured to win the upcoming election.
July earnings were more than twice of what the country received in June (US$ 151.1 million). In July, Sri Lanka saw 187, 810 tourists coming in, well above the 113,470 June figure.
