Tourist arrivals up by 46%

15 February 2011 10:12 am

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals for the month of January went up 46.2 to 74, 197 compared with the same month of the previous year, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority said.

Arrivals from Western Europe were up 53.7 percent to 32, 627 while arrivals from South Asia were 17, 900, up from 42.9 percent.

Tourist from France has gone up by 100 percent to 4544 while arrivals from The Netherlands and Sweden went up by 103 and 287 percent respectively.