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Message: <blockquote data-quote="monson" data-source="post: 21917024" data-attributes="member: 30005">Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up by 4.5 percent in June 2017, passes one million this yearJuly 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals rose 4.5 percent in June this year compared to the same period last year, surpassing the one million mark for the year, the data released today by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed.<img src="http://www.colombopage.com/CGImgs_Biz/SLTPB072017.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The month recorded 123,351 tourists arriving in the country compared to the 118,038 arrived in June 2016.In the first six months of this year 1,010,444 tourists visited the island compared to the 964,267 visited in June 2016, recording an increase of 4.8 percent.Tourist arrivals declined in the May due to the partial closure of the international airport in Katunayake for renovation of the runway. The airport resumed full operations from 6th June.Arrivals from North America rose 6.46 percent to 8,547 in June and the arrivals from US rose 5.7 percent to 4,347 during the month while arrivals from Canada increased 7.2 percent to 4,200.Tourist arrivals from Western Europe reached 33,228 during the month rising 12.3 percent from the 29,599 tourists arrived in the same month last year. Most of the tourists came from UK (10,424), Germany (7,024) and France (3,365).Arrivals from Eastern Europe declined 18.3 percent with the arrival of 3,865 tourists in June 2017. Tourist arrivals from Russia dropped by 36 percent while 26.9 percent less tourists arrived from Ukraine.Tourist arrivals from Middle East increased significantly by 124.3 percent with 4,958 visitors.Tourist arrivals from East Asia also declined 5.7 percent as 28,643 visited the country. Arrivals from China declined 13.8 percent with 17,205 tourists arriving in the country in June 2017.Arrivals from South Asia in the month remained unchanged with 35,793 tourists visiting the island. Of those arrived from South Asia, 27,836 were from India corresponding to an increase of 2.8 percent.Nearly 1.8 million tourists arrived in Sri Lanka last year contributing US$ 2.86 billion of earnings to the government. Sri Lanka's Tourism Authority has set a target of 2.5 million tourist arrivals this year.Earnings from tourism grew by 3.4 percent, year-on-year to US$ 1.038 billion in first three months of 2017, according to the Central Bank.<a href="http://www.colombopage.com/archive_17A/Jul06_1499356876CH.php" target="_blank">http://www.colombopage.com/archive_17A/Jul06_1499356876CH.php</a></blockquote>

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