Athukorala, analysing the numbers commented that the Western European traveller has increased it's choice by 17.7% to 169,330 visitors with UK growing by 14.8%, Germany by 17.5%, France by 12.6% as at 1st quarter 2015 whilst china is catapulting at 84.5% growth and India yet the number one market with a growth of 19.6% said Athukorala.

"May be it's time that we did done focussed promotions with the formal sector to see how we can plough back sone of the money that they have contributed to the overall promotional fund" said Rohantha Athukoraka the new thinking Chairman of Sri Lanka tourism promotion bureau who has extensive public sector experience like at EDB, Tea Board, Industrial Development Board and also being a Chairman of a pivotal export institution in the past.

He acknowledged that there is a perineal debate if it's the large organizations or the SME s need to be assisted by government entities but I guess some hard decisions will have to be made to regular lies the occupancy of the formal sector to be in line with the informal sector traveller pick up voiced Athukorala.