Tourist arrivals hit 1.2m in 2013

Sri Lanka met its tourist arrival target of 1.2 million last year, according to statistics released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA).

The Authority has validated the tourist arrival figures for each month of 2013, which reveals that 1,274,593 tourists had arrived in the island in 2013.

A 26.7 percent increase was recorded in tourist arrivals in 2013 from the 1,005,605 in 2012. For December 2013, the number of tourist arrivals increased by 25.9 percent to 153,918 after a marginal increase of 0.2 percent in November.

The low increase for November was due to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.