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Sri Lanka’s average daily tourist arrivals down in first 8 days of December after disaster

ECONOMYNEXT – Average daily foreign visitors into Sri Lanka reduced in the first eight days of December, official data showed, as the island nation’s tourism industry has seen some cancellation after the Cyclone Ditwah-hit devastation that killed more than 600 people across the country. The devastation has hit Sri Lanka’s key tourist hotspots in the central hill region’s Kandy and Nuwara Eliya districts. Sri Lanka’s peak tourism season is from mid-November to mid-March. The daily tourist arrival in the first eight days of December 2025 has fallen to 6,278 compared to 8,019 in the full month of December last year,…

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