Tourist arrivals near 26,000 in first 6 days of October

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Sri Lanka welcomed 25,966 tourists in the first six days of October, marking a rather slow start for the month, ahead of the winter season, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) data showed.
In the six days, the daily average tourist arrivals were slightly up at 4327.6 tourists, compared to the daily average of 4071.3 tourists recorded for September this year. The tourist arrivals grew at the slowest pace in September, with a 9.11 percent year-on-year growth rate.
India continued to account for the largest source of arrivals in the period, with 7,749 arrivals, followed by 2,437 and 1,737 arrivals from China and Germany. The United Kingdom, Australia and Russia occupied the fourth, fifth and sixth positions accordingly.
Meanwhile, the cumulative tourist arrivals reached 1,510,774 tourists. India took the top spot, with 294,305 and the UK remained as the second largest source market, with 138,125 arrivals, followed by Russia, with 128,294 arrivals.
According to the historical data, Sri Lanka attracts few more thousand tourists in October compared to September. The SLTDA forecasted 155,070 tourist arrivals for October.

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Judge Thursday, 10 October 2024 08:27 AM

Also implement the free visa policy as soon as the new Parliament is established. The few dollars you loose by foregoing the visa fee are brought back in multiples when we get increased tourists due to hassle free systems. Whether we like it or not, if we are serious about increasing tourism dollars, we will need to provide them with the such an environment. Even things like good customer service at main railway stations and having staff who can speak proper English, good toilet and other facilities, decent and inexpensive places to have a beer, reduced exorbitant entrance fees charged from tourists compared to locals, and improved tourism infrastructure and getting rid of touts and scammers. This is not rocket science. Simply saying and selling the perennial slogan "SL is beautiful" won't cut.

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Rip Winkle Thursday, 10 October 2024 12:01 PM

Wonderful. Hope the money is spent on repairing the rail tracks that are constantly coming apart and derailing trains.

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Gune Thursday, 10 October 2024 01:15 PM

Create a tourist friendly environment and reduce fees. Provide tourists at least with basic sanitary facilities. If you don't know look at countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. Otherwise, wait until cows come home. They ain't going to come. SL is not the only country in the world to visit.

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