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Getting Closer To The Million Mark – Sri Lanka Welcomes 37,000 Tourists In The First Week Of March

The Tourism Industry in Sri Lanka is seeing amazing progress with the number of tourist arrivals for the past two and a half months. In fact, the island has already reached the count of half a million arrivals on the 1st of March. Since then, the first 5 days of March saw 37,768 arrivals. This brings the average number of visitors per day to 7553.

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Sri Lanka’s largest market is Russia where tourists also choose to stay at any popular Sri Lanka Ayurveda resort the likes of Heritance Ayurveda. While the total number of tourist amount to 15.3% from Russia, 14.3% of arrivals are said to be from India and 10.2% are from the United Kingdom. The island is also seeing tourists from Germany, China, Autralia, France and the Netherlands. Sri Lanka will also be unravelling new promotional activities later in March.