{"id":62062,"date":"2018-12-06T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=62062"},"modified":"2018-12-06T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:27:08","slug":"president-sirisena-keeps-away-from-tourism-awards-event-fearing-boycott-by-tourist-industry-leaders-and-issues-circular-prohibiting-all-state-institutions-from-using-private-hotels-for-state-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=62062","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena Keeps Away From Tourism Awards Event Fearing Boycott by Tourist Industry Leaders  and Issues Circular Prohibiting All State Institutions From Using Private Hotels for State Functions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Maithripala Sirisena pulled out of Sri Lanka Tourism Awards ceremony last night following reporters that tourism industry leaders are planning to boycott the event against the President&#8217;s participation. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) said Sirisena was invited for the event on the basis that he is the head of state. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, tourism industry leaders have claimed that the current political turmoil has severely hampered the tourism industry and over 300000 jobs have been severely affected. <\/p>\n<p>Two days before President Sirisena triggered the political crisis appointing Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Minister, Sri Lanka was named the top tourism destination in the world by Lonely Planet. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the reports emerged that tourism industry leaders have decided to boycott the award ceremony, President Sirisena issued a circular prohibiting all state institutions from using private hotels for state functions. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Asian Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton62062\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D62062&amp;text=President%20Sirisena%20Keeps%20Away%20From%20Tourism%20Awards%20Event%20Fearing%20Boycott%20by%20Tourist%20Industry%20Leaders%20%20and...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena pulled out of Sri Lanka Tourism Awards ceremony last night following reporters that tourism industry leaders are planning to boycott the event against the President&#8217;s participation. Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) said Sirisena was invited for the event on the basis that he is the head of state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62063,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62062\/revisions\/62063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}