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Sri Lanka tourist arrivals exceed 2018 level

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals exceeded the previous high reached in 2018 with Indian visitors being feted for taking the country over the threshold, but the island nation is on track to fall short of the 3 million target set for 2025. India remains the leading source market of tourists coming into Sri Lanka, with a flight from Thiruvananthapuram bringing the latest arrivals. Prof Felix Beslin Pereira, Reena Fernandez, and Ann Cristina Pereira arrived on SriLankan Airlines flight UL 162, were the 2,333,797th and subsequent guests, Sri Lanka Tourism said. Sri Lanka’s National Peoples Power government had aimed at…

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