article_snippet.sent: Gareth Huw Davies enjoys the new stability on the teardrop-shaped island in the Indian Ocean, where The holiday industry is recovering, and expanding with a crop of smart new hotels, after the dual torment of a tsunami and a bitter civil war.
article_snippet.sent: Most visitors stay on the west and south coasts where, as well as standard tourist hotels, there is a growing choice of chic, small places such as Tri, a ten-suite boutique hotel near the south coast that opens in June.
article_snippet.sent: We lurched off down the tragic (it bore the brunt of the 2004 tsunami) and beautiful coast to Galle.
highlights_snippet.sent: The teardrop-shaped island was ravaged by the tsunami in 2004 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The holiday industry there is recovered and expanding with new hotels .
  