Sri Lanka August tourist arrivals up 30%

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Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals jumped 29.6 percent in August from a year earlier with visitors expect to hit a record high, as the island nation kept attracting more visitors and tourism-related investment since the end of a 25-year civil war.

Arrivals have risen every month on a year-on-year basis since the war's end in May 2009, and the government is targeting annual revenue of $2.5 billion by 2016 from 2.5 million expected visitors coming to see Sri Lanka's beaches, hills and religious and historic sites.

Visitors in August were 72,463, against 55,898 in the same month last year. Arrivals in the first eight months of 2011 have jumped 35.2 percent to 537,787, compared to the same period a year ago.

Sri Lanka has forecast a 20 percent growth in arrivals this year to more than 780,000 people, and the government has facilitated $1.2 billion in tourism investment so far in 2011.

The 654,476 arrivals in 2010 exceeded the previous all-time high 566,202 from 2004, when a peace accord was in place. Last's year's tally was 46.1 percent higher than the year before.

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