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Sri Lanka expects more tourists from China’s Zhejiang Province – China to support tourism to Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, in the past few months, has been seeing an increase in the number of tourist arrivals. China is one of the major markets for the island. South Lake Resort and many other Koggala hotels have recorded increased occupancy rates of Chinese tourists. Zhejiang Province in China accounts for a fifth of the total number of tourists from China. According to the Ministry of Tourism Development, the tourism administration of Zhejiang Province in China has stated that they will do their best to help increase the number of tourists to Sri Lanka.

This is the first occasion on which Sri Lankan delegates have visited a location that generates more than 60,000 tourist arrivals to the island. The Tourism Minister of Sri Lanka and his delegation were present at the Ningbo International Tourism Expo. They also took part in the “Road Show”, where over 300 tourism stakeholders were present.

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