Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose by 13.6 percent in October compared to the same period in 2013 to surpass 1.2 million arrivals this year, the data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed.
The month recorded 121,576 tourists arriving in the country compared to the 90,339 arrived in October 2013.
In the first ten months of this year a total of 1,228,754 tourists arrived in the island recording a 21.5 percent increase from the 1,011,255 arrivals during the corresponding period in 2013.
Most of the tourist arrivals were from Western Europe with 387,215 tourists visiting in the first ten months of this year recording a 13.8 percent increase over corresponding 2013 figures. For the month of October 32,061 tourists, 10.1% more than October 2013, arrived in the island.
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