A surge of cancellations has hit Sri Lanka following last week’s terror attacks, according to ForwardKeys, which forecasts travel patterns by analysing over 17m flight booking transactions.
ForwardKeys highlighted that three days after the bombings, cancellations of existing bookings grew 86.2%, while new bookings decreased.
Forward bookings for Jul and Aug, which had been running 2.6% ahead of 2018 as of 20 Apr, fell to 0.3% behind as of 23 Apr.
Prior to the attack, Sri Lanka’s tourism was showing healthy growth with flight bookings during 01 Jan-20 Apr up 3.4% compared to 2018.
Source: traveldaily