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17 March 2012

Sri Lanka Tourist Arrivals in February 2012 Up by 27pct

15th March 2012, www.lankabusinessonline.com

Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals increased 27 percent to 83,549 in February 2012, from a year earlier, and visitors during the first two months were up 21 percent to 169,423, the state tourist promotion office said.

South Asia, the second largest generating market, showed an increase of 14.1 percent with Indian arrivals up 12.6 percent to 11,342 and Maldives up 15.4 percent to 2,675.

Arrivals from Western Europe rose 23.4 percent to 38,364, though UK visitors fell 9 percent to 8,746. German arrivals rose 42.6 percent to 7,654, arrivals from France increased 27.7 percent to 6,378 and those from the Netherlands rose 15 percent to 2,596.

Eastern Europe generated 3,675 visitors up 62.4 percent and the Middle East brought 3,675 visitors up 21 percent.

North America showed a 20 percent increase to 4,166 with US arrivals up 17.7 percent to 2,252 and Canadian visitors up 22.9 percent to 1,914.

Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals have boomed since the end of a civil war in 2009. In 2011, arrivals rose 30.8 percent to 855,975.

Image Courtesy: www.ft.lk

Related Info :

• Sri Lanka Tourism Statistics and Tourist Arrivals

16 February 2012

Sri Lanka Tourist Arrivals in January 2012 Up by 15.7pct

10th February 2012, www.news360.lk

Sri Lanka has received 85,874 tourists to the country during the month of January this year.

Sri Lanka Tourism says this is a year on year increase of 15.7% compared to 74,197 tourists received during January 2010.

Arrivals from all the major markets have increased during January, with the highest number of tourists coming from the Western Europe amounting to 36,497 tourists.

Tourists from the Western European Region have seen an arrival growth of 11.9%.

Visitors to the country from the South Asian Region also have run up to 19,209 tourists which is a growth of just 7.3%.

Out of the lot, 14,615 tourists have come from neighboring India.

Tourist arrivals from Eastern Europe during January have gone up to 6,838, marking the highest year on year growth of 22.3%, when compared with the other regions.

Sri Lanka also has received 5,177 tourists from North America, which is a growth of 21.1% compared to January 2010.

Related Info :

• Sri Lanka Tourism Statistics and Tourist Arrivals

13 July 2011

Sri Lanka Tourist Arrivals in June 2011 Up by 20pct

13th July 2011, www.lankabusinessonline.com

Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka rose 19.9 percent in June to 53,636 with the Middle East and Asia driving growth and Western Europe flattening, data from the tourism promotion office showed.

Visitors from South Asia rose 22.1 percent to 18,431 with India rising 12,927 and Maldives rising 12.8 percent to 3,679. Visitors from India zoomed after Sri Lanka allowed on-arrival visas from the country in 2002.

Visitors from Western Europe edged up only 1.5 percent to 14,087 with UK arrivals dropping 17.2 percent to 5,188. But arrivals from France rose 36 percent to 2,019 and German visitors rose 31 percent to 2,474.

European arrivals

peak during the northern hemisphere winter and Sri Lanka's western coast is also less sunny during the local rainy season. However Sri Lanka is now opening up its East coast which is bright and sunny and calm during middle of the year.

Middle Eastern visitors rose 79 percent to 4,487 and East Asian visitors rose 32 percent to 6,836. Arrivals from China rose 33.5 percent to 1,132 from Japan up 48 percent to 1,180 and Singapore up 18 percent to 1,343.

Visitors from Australia rose 6.7 percent to 2,727.

Related Info :

• Sri Lanka Tourism Statistics and Tourist Arrivals

23 February 2011

Sri Lanka Tourism Industry Records the Highest Tourist Arrival Growth in the world for 2010

22nd February 2011, www.tourismcambodia.com

Deputy Minister of Economic Development Mr. Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena says tourism has become one of the rapidly growing sectors in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka recorded the highest percentage of tourist growth in the world last year. As per statistics released by the Pacific Asia Travel Association it was at 45 percent. USA has gained 26 percent and Japan 24 percent.

The Minister stated these facts at media conference in Colombo this morning.

The Minister said that there is a steep rise in tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka and in the month of January 74,472 tourists arrived in the country compared to around 49,000 in January last year. He said that this year’s target of 700,000 will surpass if this trend continues.

He added that there is an increase demand for establishing Hotels in the country by leading international Hotel Chains, and Sri Lanka gives priority to granting approval for them.

The Minister said approval has been given for the establishment of 13 new hotels in Passikudah with a foreign investment of 90 Million US dollars which would provide 878 hotel rooms. In Kutchaveli 30 Million US dollars is being spent to build 4 hotels of 5 star grade. He said that requests have been received for the construction of 58 hotel projects.

Related Info :
• Sri Lanka Tourism Statistics and Tourist Arrivals

• Mahindra & Mahindra for Leisure & Finance Investments in Sri Lanka

05 January 2011

Luxury Cruiser Nautica in Colombo with 628 Tourists

05th January 2011, lankapuvath.lk

The luxury cruiser “Nautica” berthed at the Colombo Port yesterday (04) with 628 tourists aboard.

The ship carried tourists from countries including America, England, New Zealand, Switzerland and Australia.

The cruise is owned by American-based company Oceania Cruises, contains 750 comfortable

rooms with facilities such as conference rooms, swimming pools, golf courts, etc., and many other state-of-the-art conveniences for the passengers.

The next destination of the vessel which started sailing from South Africa on 11 December is Myanmar.