COLOMBO, Sept 9 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka earned over two billion U.S. dollars from tourism, in the first eight months of the year, the latest data from the country’s Central Bank shows.
Sri Lanka earned 2.17 billion dollars in the above period, which is a 66.1 percent increase from the same period last year, the Central Bank data shows.
Tourist arrivals also increased by 50.7 percent in the same period, and 1.36 million tourists arrived in the first eight months of this year, the central bank data shows.
Last month, arrivals were 164,609, around 20 percent increase compared to Aug last year, Central Bank data shows.
Tourism is one of Sri Lanka’s top foreign revenue generators.
Sri Lankan tourism authorities are expecting three million foreign tourists next year, Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau Managing Director, Nalin Perera, said.– NNN-XINHUA
