Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka rose 7.8 percent to 90,338 in July 2012 from a year earlier, with arrivals up to July rising 16.7 percent to 543,205, data from the state tourism promotion office showed.
Middle Eastern visitors dropped 45.2 percent to 5,491 owing to the holy month of Ramadan.
East Asian visitors rose 27 percent to 10, 636 with Malaysia generating 1,640 visitors up 23.6 percent. Tourists from Japan rose 30.3 percent to 2,366. Visitors from Thailand rose 90.6 percent to 827. Chinese visitors rose 31.2 percent to 1,966.
Visitors from North America including Canada rose 15.5 percent to 7,018 from a year earlier.
Arrivals from Australia rose 27.3 percent to 5,063.
In the first seven months of 2012, the top generating market was India, with 96,990 up 2.8 percent. UK was the second largest source of tourists at 61,618 up 5 percent, with Germany coming in third with 37,933 visitors up 26 percent.
France was the fourth largest source of tourists with 33,893 up 16.4 percent followed by Maldives at 23,704 up 4.6 percent closely followed by Australia with 23,838 up 18 percent.
Sri Lanka‘s tourist arrivals have growth steadily since a 30 year war ended in 2009.
Source : http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?nid=148581370
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