Tourist arrivals increased notably by 8.9 per cent in January 2018, recording the second highest number of arrivals in a given month.
Accordingly, the number of tourist arrivals during the month was 238,924 in comparison to the highest monthly arrival of 244,536 in December 2017. The top five sources of tourist arrivals, India, China, the UK, Germany and France, accounted for 47.2 per cent of the total tourist arrivals in January 2018. Following the same trend in tourist arrivals, earnings from tourism increased, year-on-year, to US dollars 443 million in January 2018.
Meanwhile, workers’ remittances grew by 8.8 per cent, year-on-year, to US dollars 729 million in January 2018 compared to US dollars 670 million in January 2017.
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