Sri Lanka Tourism Industry

Sri Lanka tourism industry directly employs around 11% of the island’s workforce.

The sector has around 500,000 direct employees and supports up to another 400,000 indirect workers.

With family and dependants, this equates for upwards of 1 million people or 1 in 22 of the population.

Of course there are many other people that benefit from tourism, such as the shops, hotels and tour operators.