In the nine months to September 2011 in Sri Lanka, total arrivals rose 34.3 percent to 598,006, helped by surging arrivals from China and India.
In the nine months to September 2011 in Sri Lanka, total arrivals rose 34.3 percent to 598,006, helped by surging arrivals from India and China, official data showed.
Sri Lanka on 24th Nov. (Thursday) reached a record in tourist arrivals to the country, the government information department said.
The government said that the 750,000th tourist arrived in Sri Lanka on Thursday evening which was more than the anticipated target for the year.
The Sri Lankan tourist board had initially targeted 750,000 tourist arrivals for 2011 but with that target already being reached on Thursday the tourist board has now revised the target to 800,000 visitors by the year-end.
This will be an increase of 22 percent as compared to 2010, the Sri Lankan government information department said.
The island is experiencing a tourism boom with arrivals growing rapidly after the end of the island's 30-year ethnic war in 2009.
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