As a direct impact of the Easter Sunday tragedy, earnings from tourism in May have plunged by 70.8% to $ 71 million from $ 243 million a year earlier. The drastic drop has forced cumulative first five months earnings from tourism to decline by 7.1% to $ 1.77 billion. In April, tourism earnings were down 7.5% to $ 313 million whilst cumulative figures showed a 2.2% gain to $ 1.7 billion.  - Daily Ft

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