Month of March : Sri Lanka Tourist arrivals up by 24.1%

Tourist Arrivals Sri Lanka

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




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