Sri Lanka’s tourism promotion bureau says it is collecting information on a number of sites and locations less frequented by foreigners but has potential to become popular tourist attractions.The bureau, which spearheads all marketing and promotional functions says, it has identified 200 such scenic locations which are popular among domestic travelers but are not in the international tourist trail, Lanka Business Online said.Rumy Jauffer, managing director of the tourism promotion bureau, was quoted saying that the on-going project would actively collect information on these locations, document it and make it available on the internet by end October 2011.The bureau will also put electronic tourist information kiosks at key hotels and other locations to disseminate this information to tourists.The island nation, emerging after the end of a three decade long ethnic conflict is aggressively pushing its tourism industry to be among the top five foreign exchange earners by 2015.Foreign visitors have been flocking to the country since the end of war in 2009 and room rates have also moved up.
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