මෝඩ ජෙප්පෝ තවත් අඬයි 
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s 2023 tourism revenues jumped over 80 percent to $2.1 billion from $1.1 billion in the previous year, official data show.
The revenues more than doubled to $269.3 million in December 2023 from a year earlier from $127.3 million as the arrivals have gradually picked up after protest-led political crisis in 2022,
The tourism revenue numbers are based on a survey conducted by the tourism promotion office and released by the central bank.
Arrivals in December also more than doubled to 210,352, compared to 91,961 in the same month a year ago, while total foreign visitors to the island nation in 2023 were 1,487,303, which is 106.6 percent up from 719,978 recorded in 2022, the official data showed.
The tourism arrival was hit by violence in the June quarter of 2022 after then Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s supporters brutally attacked unarmed protesters on May 9 to evict them from prolonged protest sites in capital Colombo.
Later, the violence spread throughout the country with some targeted ruling politicians and damaged their houses and properties.
The uncertainty after the change of the country’s president in an unprecedented manner also took a toll on the leisure industry which contributed 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 at its peak. (Colombo/Jan 06/2024)
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s 2023 tourism revenues jumped over 80 percent to $2.1 billion from $1.1 billion in the previous year, official data show.
The revenues more than doubled to $269.3 million in December 2023 from a year earlier from $127.3 million as the arrivals have gradually picked up after protest-led political crisis in 2022,
The tourism revenue numbers are based on a survey conducted by the tourism promotion office and released by the central bank.
Arrivals in December also more than doubled to 210,352, compared to 91,961 in the same month a year ago, while total foreign visitors to the island nation in 2023 were 1,487,303, which is 106.6 percent up from 719,978 recorded in 2022, the official data showed.
The tourism arrival was hit by violence in the June quarter of 2022 after then Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s supporters brutally attacked unarmed protesters on May 9 to evict them from prolonged protest sites in capital Colombo.
Later, the violence spread throughout the country with some targeted ruling politicians and damaged their houses and properties.
The uncertainty after the change of the country’s president in an unprecedented manner also took a toll on the leisure industry which contributed 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 at its peak. (Colombo/Jan 06/2024)
