Sri Lanka's national carrier, ArilLanka, has eliminated one of its two weekly flights to Japan because of its sharp drop in Japanese tourists.
AirLanka's manager for Japan told airline officials in Colombo this week that Japanese tourists were avoiding Sri Lanka because of the rising ethnic violence on the island.
Two Japanese nationals were killed and two others were seriously wounded in the bomb explosions earlier this month inside an AirLanka passenger jet. The Sri Lanka Government blamed the blast on Tamil militants fighting for a separate homeland.