{"id":5519,"date":"2026-01-28T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:52:26","slug":"tourist-arrivals-in-2026-top-223000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/tourist-arrivals-in-2026-top-223000\/","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 which accounts to 19.0%. Furthermore, 23,329 persons from the United Kingdom, 22,876 from Russia, 14,431 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fintechnews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}