Hotel News Resource

Monday, July 2, 2007

Sri Lanka's luxury hotels hurt by violence

Singers Britney Spears, Paul McCartney, Sting and Paul Simon have all traveled to Sri Lanka for a big-bucks taste of tropical luxury. But an escalating war with Tamil Tiger rebels and increasingly gruesome headlines on the human- rights situation means that the rich are now staying away -- and rooms in the island's boutique hotels are going for a song.