Tourism Stimulus Package: A smaller income support program titled Tourism Stimulus Package was announced on April 17th. The program will cover only 2,436 people formally affiliated with tourism sector and will provide support to them through cash for work and
cash for reskilling style programs. Work provided under this program includes beautification of the main tourist attractions, maintenance of relevant infrastructure, hotel assessments, support to carrying out of survey and studies aimed to improve performance of the sector, as well as waste management.

Those interested workers registered for the package are tourist guides, tour operators, drivers and cooks.

Those eligible will be provided Nu 6,000 (~USD 80) per month in case of selecting in training, and Nu 15,000 (~USD 200) per month in case of opting out for construction and
development work. The duration of the program was not specified.

Total budget of the programs is Nu 286 million (~USD 3.8 million).