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Sri Lanka hoping to see more visitors from India this year

Friday, February 17, 2023

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Sri Lanka is hoping to see 1.55 million tourists this year with a large chunk of visitors from India. This was said by Priyantha Fernando, the Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority.


Fernando said that this year they are expecting nearly 260,000 arrivals from India. With Chinese traffic growing this month, further increases are expected.


Fernando said that they are expecting 1.55 million tourist influxes this year and it is quite encouraging. In January this year, there were 102,545 tourists.


During the first week of February this year, Sri Lanka witnessed around 18,000 tourists, said Fernando.
In 2019, prior to the corona virus pandemic, Sri Lanka greeted around 1.9 million tourists.


During that year itself, Sri Lanka witnessed 355,002 tourists from India, 198,776 tourists from the UK along with 167,863 from China.


Fernando said that Indian tourists per person are predictable to spend about 1,850 dollars while visiting Sri Lanka. However, some tourists tend to spend much more, taking into account the duty free sales.


Russians who face concern with Ruble, might also be able to bring Indian rupees, said Fernando. Last December, Sri Lanka received 91,961 tourists of which 19,963 visited from Russia. In January this year, out of 102,545 tourists, 25,254 visited from Russia.


This year, visitors from Russia along with India, Germany and the UK are anticipated to fetch the maximum number of tourists to Sri Lanka.


In 2019, Sri Lanka witnessed 134,899 visitors from Germany, which made it the fourth largest producing market, following India, the UK and China.

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