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Sri Lanka Records Nearly 200,000 Foreign Tourist Arrivals In August


(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Xinhua

Colombo: Nearly 200,000 foreign tourists visited Sri Lanka in August 2025, according to the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority on Monday.

The 198,235 arrivals marked a 20.4 percent increase from August 2024.

From January through August this year, total arrivals reached 1,566,523. India, Britain, Russia, Germany and China were the top source markets over the period.

Tourism, a key source of foreign exchange, generated more than 2 billion U.S. dollars in the first seven months of 2025, data from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka showed.

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