Highest tourist arrivals recorded in December 2012
In December 2012, Sri Lanka Tourism witnessed the highest ever
tourist arrivals in a single month.
According to the figures, in last December alone, a number of 122,252
visitors came to Sri Lanka whereas the total number of visitors for 2012
amounted to be 1,055,605, which recorded a growth of 17.5% in comparison
with the previous year.
The highest contributions to this total came from Western and Eastern
European countries, South Asia, East Asia and from Middle East. For the
first time in history, Sri Lanka achieved the goal of one million
tourists on December 30, 2012.
In 2013, the targeted number of arrivals by the government is
1,250,000.
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