Tourist arrivals increase 8 percent in June

Sri Lanka Tourism has, for the first time, shown an increase of 8 per cent of arrivals in June, a media release said.

With the end of the long civil war, everyone is expecting Sri Lanka to bounce back and become a key player in tourism in the Asia region. The increase for June is driven by increase in the number of arrivals particularly from UK, India and the Middle East. These sectors show a healthy increase of 10.9 percent, 8.1 percent and 84.8 percent for June 2009.