Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals increased by 12.6% as against the previous year to mark 246,972 visitors for the first month of the year. Sri Lanka target 2.5 million visitors this year.
Once again Indian arrivals topped the list with 43,643 while China followed with 24,819 whihc showed a sharp decline.
Visitors from Pakistan rose 18.2% to 2,971 and Maldives was up 9.4% to 6,194.
With the season ending UK arrival saw an increase of 5.1% to 22,410 while Germany grew 20.2 percent to 14,982. France was up 14.5% to 12,209.
Eastern Europe grew 15 percent to 30,550 with Russia up 12.5 percent to 11,634 and Ukraine up 12 percent to 6,544.
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