{"id":15178,"date":"2026-01-28T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=15178"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:50:09","slug":"tourist-arrivals-in-2026-top-223000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=15178","title":{"rendered":"Tourist arrivals in 2026 top 223,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A total of 223,645 tourists have arrived in the country thus far in 2026, 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 41,603 tourists have arrived from India which accounts to 19.0%. Furthermore, 23,329 persons from the United Kingdom, 22,876 from Russia, 14,431 from Germany and 10,746 French nationals have also visited Sri Lanka so far this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 252,761 tourists arrived in the country in January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, a record 2,362,521 foreign nationals visited Sri Lanka last year, according to the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bizenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/28090604\/Weekly_Report_1st_to_25th_January_2026-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171621\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bizenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/28090601\/Weekly_Report_1st_to_25th_January_2026-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171620\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bizenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/28090557\/Weekly_Report_1st_to_25th_January_2026-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171619\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Ada Derana Biz <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 223,645 tourists have arrived in the country thus far in 2026, data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) shows. According to data released by the SLTDA, a total of 41,603 tourists have arrived from India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15179,"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-15178","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\/15178","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=15178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}