Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 3.4 percent to 604,953 in the first quarter of March 2016 despite a daytime closure of the airport but arrivals in March fell by 2.5 percent to 188,076, tourism promotion office data showed.
Visitors from India dropped 10.3 percent to 27,075 in March, Maldives dropped 10 percent to 8,076, and Pakistan also dropped 10.4 percent to 2,433, taking South Asian arrivals down 9.9 percent to 39,804.
Chinese tourists rose 12.9 percent to 22,172, visitors from Japan rose 4.8 percent to 4,271.
Visitors from Western Europe dropped 6.2 percent to 65,640 with the Netherlands rise in 24 percent to 3,043 but UK dropping 9.2 percent to 19,451 and Germany dropping 6.5 percent to 15, 207.
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