Sri Lanka, March 30 -- By Shabiya Ali Ahlam

Sri Lanka's hard hit tourism sector has made a fresh appeal to the government to extend a new relief package to industry stakeholders in addition to what has been already proposed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

In a letter to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Chamber of Tourism and Industry urged the government to further introduce a suitable short and long-term relief package for the industry, which is the most impacted due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that the world is continuing to battle with.

Pointing out that the sector has been subjected to repeated hardships over the years, with the most recent being the Easter Sunday attack that took place last April, and now the Covi...