SL Hotels to accept payments from residents overseas in foreign exchange

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The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka issued Rules making it mandatory for hotel service providers to accept payments from person’s resident outside Sri Lanka, only in foreign exchange. 

These Rules are published in the Gazette Extraordinary No. 2263/41 dated 21 January 2022. 

With the issuance of the Rules, hotel service providers registered with and licensed by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority are required to accept payments for services rendered to person’s resident outside Sri Lanka only in foreign exchange, Central Bank announced 

 The authority should deposit such foreign currency into a Business Foreign Currency Account of the hotel service provider or sell to a licensed bank within three business days.

Credit payments should be  transferred  into a Business Foreign Currency Account of the hotel service provider, in the event such a person resident outside Sri Lanka makes payments using an Electronic Fund Transfer Card (Credit Card, Debit Card, Travel Card, etc.), it said. 

At the same time, hotel service providers may accept payments in Sri Lanka Rupees from persons resident outside Sri Lanka provided they submit original documentary evidence to prove that such Sri Lanka Rupees represent the foreign currency brought into Sri Lanka and converted through a licensed bank or an authorized money changer

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