{"id":576,"date":"2026-04-30T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=576"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:18:35","slug":"sri-lanka-records-over-858000-tourist-arrivals-in-first-four-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/30\/sri-lanka-records-over-858000-tourist-arrivals-in-first-four-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Records Over 858,000 Tourist Arrivals in First Four Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority has reported that a total of 858,527 foreign tourists visited Sri Lanka between January 1 and April 26.<\/p>\n<p>During the first 26 days of April alone, 117,893 tourists arrived in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The highest single-day arrival in April was recorded on April 2, with 6,624 tourists entering Sri Lanka on that day.<\/p>\n<p>Among the visitors who arrived from April 1 onwards, India recorded the highest number of tourists, with 35,862 arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by tourists from United Kingdom (9,585), Australia (9,142), China (8,543), Russia (6,172), and France (5,219).<\/p>\n<p>A notable number of tourists also arrived from Germany, Switzerland, and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority has reported that a total of 858,527 foreign tourists visited Sri Lanka between January 1 and April 26. During the first 26 days of April alone, 117,893 tourists arrived in the country. The highest single-day arrival in April was recorded on April 2, with 6,624 tourists entering Sri Lanka &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","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\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}