In the first four months of the year arrivals were up 27.6 percent to 534,132.
Arrivals from Western Europe surged 47.9 percent to 37,369 in April with UK arrivals rising 59.6 percent to 12,380. Visitors from Germany rose 59.6 percent to 8,137 and those from France rose 43.2 percent to 5,970.
South Asian tourists rose 28 percent to 27,954 with Indian visitors up 35.8 percent to 17,192. Maldives was up 10.2 percent to 6,860 and Pakistan was up 36.5 percent to 2,764.
East Asian visitors rose 61.4 percent to 18,416. China with Hong Kong surged 170 percent to 8,005 and Japan rose 90 percent to 2,368.
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