{"id":14647,"date":"2025-12-10T12:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:02:58","slug":"over-50000-tourists-arrive-in-first-eight-days-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=14647","title":{"rendered":"Over 50,000 tourists arrive in first eight days of December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A total of 50,222 tourists have arrived in the country thus far in December, data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data released by the SLTDA, a total of 10,453 tourists have arrived from India which accounts to 21%. Furthermore, 5,420 persons from Russia, 4,822 from Germany, 3,823 from the United Kingdom and 2,627 French nationals have also visited Sri Lanka in the month of December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the number of tourists arrived in Sri Lanka in 2025 has increased to 2,153,815 with the release of the latest figures for December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among them, 485,249 individuals are from India, 195,565 from the UK, 164,013 from Russia, 136,081 from Germany, 124,298 from China and 103,307 are from France, the SLTDA noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bizenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/10121223\/Weekly_Report_1st_to_08th_December_2025-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169127\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bizenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/10121220\/Weekly_Report_1st_to_08th_December_2025-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169126\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bizenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/10121216\/Weekly_Report_1st_to_08th_December_2025-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169125\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bizenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/10121213\/Weekly_Report_1st_to_08th_December_2025-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169124\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : Ada Derana Biz <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 50,222 tourists have arrived in the country thus far in December, data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) shows. According to data released by the SLTDA, a total of 10,453 tourists have arrived from India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}