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Sri Lanka Tourism today welcomed the arrival of 1,500,000th tourist for the year 2014 at the Bandaranaike International Airport.


Sri Lanka Tourism officials including Managing Director Rumy Jauffer and representatives from travel and tourism industry warmly welcomed Torence Jimmy, who arrived with Qupika Hedwig, via UL 558 Sri Lankan Airlines flight from German, as the 1.5 millionth tourist in 2014 to Sri Lanka.(Deepa Adhikari)


 

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  • menance Sunday, 28 December 2014 03:48 PM

    I work in Sri Lankan airline office in BIA, the managing director wanted to swap a flight from china to a flight from europe to show, more touarists are coming from europe. another cheap election propaganda.

    K. C. John Monday, 29 December 2014 09:56 AM

    But hoteliers say that they have had one of the worst years!

    microcriket Friday, 09 January 2015 12:04 PM

    Yes this is absolutely true, where are these tourist staying? the tourist board used to collect monthly occupancy statistics from hotels, this is no longer practised so it is not actual tourist figures shown here.


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