{"id":339,"date":"2026-04-25T06:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=339"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:43:43","slug":"sri-lanka-welcomes-over-840000-tourists-in-2026-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/25\/sri-lanka-welcomes-over-840000-tourists-in-2026-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Welcomes Over 840,000 Tourists in 2026 So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has recorded a total of <strong>840,411 foreign tourist arrivals<\/strong> from January 1 to April 22, according to the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority.<\/p>\n<p>During the first 22 days of April alone, <strong>99,777 tourists<\/strong> visited the country, with the highest single-day arrival recorded on April 2, when <strong>6,624 tourists<\/strong> entered Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>India remains the leading source market, with <strong>29,192 Indian tourists<\/strong> arriving since April 1. Other key contributors include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>United Kingdom \u2013 8,439<\/li>\n<li>Australia \u2013 8,186<\/li>\n<li>China \u2013 7,161<\/li>\n<li>Russia \u2013 5,342<\/li>\n<li>France \u2013 4,659<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A notable number of visitors have also arrived from Germany, Switzerland, and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>The steady inflow highlights Sri Lanka\u2019s continued recovery and growing appeal as a global travel destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has recorded a total of 840,411 foreign tourist arrivals from January 1 to April 22, according to the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. During the first 22 days of April alone, 99,777 tourists visited the country, with the highest single-day arrival recorded on April 2, when 6,624 tourists entered Sri Lanka. India remains &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}