What is the tourist arrival for January 2012 ?

sapumal · 1 What is the tourist arrival for January 2012 ? Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:05 am

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Why Still responsible people haven't updated the official site (www.sltda.gov.lk) ?

cseguide · 2 Re: What is the tourist arrival for January 2012 ? Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:15 am

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most probably it will exceed 100000 . normally it will take 10 days to issue the latest numbers.

sapumal · 3 Re: What is the tourist arrival for January 2012 ? Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:25 pm

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It passed 82,500 on January 21 st. I hope it will jump over 120,000 (considering average per day 3928). But 110,000 will be a more realistic target

http://forum.srilankaequity.com/t15204-82508-arrivals-within-21-days-of-january-tourism-chief

FXX · 4 Re: What is the tourist arrival for January 2012 ? Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:15 pm

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If the government/Police dont do something to sop these rape cases it will effect the Tourist Arrivals

http://www.gossip9.com/2012/02/blog-post_6726.html#more

nadeesha5814 · 5 Re: What is the tourist arrival for January 2012 ? Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:22 pm

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120k is huge. The target for this yr is 900k odd. So this is great figures considering the new VISA regulations

Kumar · 6 Sri Lanka receives 85,874 tourists in January Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:48 pm

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Sri Lanka has received 85,874 tourists to the country during the month of January this year.

Sri Lanka Tourism says this is a year on year increase of 15.7% compared to 74,197 tourists received during January 2010.

Arrivals from all the major markets have increased during January, with the highest number of tourists coming from the Western Europe amounting to 36,497 tourists.

Tourists from the Western European Region have seen an arrival growth of 11.9%.

Visitors to the country from the South Asian Region also have run up to 19,209 tourists which is a growth of just 7.3%.

Out of the lot, 14,615 tourists have come from neighboring India.

Tourist arrivals from Eastern Europe during January have gone up to 6,838, marking the highest year on year growth of 22.3%, when compared with the other regions.

Sri Lanka also has received 5,177 tourists from North America, which is a growth of 21.1% compared to January 2010.
http://www.news360.lk/tourism/sri-lanka-1233-receives-85874-tourists-in-january

sapumal · 7 Re: What is the tourist arrival for January 2012 ? Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:52 pm

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It is 85,874 (only 15.7% increase)
##### officials.

Dep minister told that it surplus 60,000 during first 16 days
Tourism chief told that it has surplus 82,000 within first 21 days.

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