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Lanka just 19.6% behind last year’s tourist arrival

The total number of international tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka during November 2019 was 176,984. In comparison to November last year, there was a decline of 9.5% when the arrivals were 195,582.

This month, the largest source market for tourists was India followed by Germany and China. Almost 90% of tourists travelled by air to Sri Lanka.

As of November 30, 2019, 1,672,039 of tourists had visited Sri Lanka for this year. It is a decline of 19.6% over last year when 2,08,0,627 of tourists had visited the country during the same period.

However, Sri Lanka saw a 70.8% significant drop in arrivals last May due to Easter Sunday Attacks and gradually it has decreased to 9.5% by November which is a promising sign for Sri Lanka Tourism.


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