The total number of international tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka during March 2018 has increased to 233,382.
In comparison to March last year where the arrivals were 188,076, there is a growth of 24.1 %. This month, the largest source market for tourists is India, followed by United Kingdom and Germany. Almost 94% of tourists travelled by air to Sri Lanka. As at March 31, 2018, 707,924 tourists had visited Sri Lanka for this year. It is a 17.1% growth over last year when 604,953 tourists had visited the country during the same period.
Europe continued to be the largest source of tourist traffic to Sri Lanka with 53% of the total traffic received in March 2018. Asia and the Pacific accounted for 38 % of the total traffic, America 7%, Middle East 1% and Africa 1%. India, United Kingdom, Germany, China and France were Sri Lanka’s top five international tourist generating markets in the month of March this year.
Source: DailyNews