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April 16th, 2013 
Peter Nolan He was shot and stabbed after trying to break up a fight in a hotel bar.
Two European tourists were also beaten up in central Sri Lanka last month.
The country’s tourist industry has been ignited by the end of recent
hostilities, with former
war zones in the north and east now opening up to visitors.
However, some human rights groups have criticised what they describe as “tasteless
war tourism”, including holiday
accommodation built on the site of Sri Lanka’s “killing fields”.
The Sri Lankan government has also come under fire for allegedly
bulldozing independent guesthouses to make way for new holiday resorts,
and for press ahead with “morally dubious” tourism projects
“morally dubious” in Hambantota and Kalpitiya, on the south and north-west
coasts.
A million foreigners visited Sri Lanka in 2012, more than double the number
that arrived in the final year of the civil war. The tourism boom has
subsequently resulted in a three-fold increase in hotel prices.
Edited at Telegraph.co.uk by Natalie
Paris
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