{"id":138849,"date":"2023-12-09T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T01:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138849"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T01:13:32","slug":"sri-lankan-tourism-revenue-reaches-usd1-8b-in-first-11-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/09\/sri-lankan-tourism-revenue-reaches-usd1-8b-in-first-11-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan tourism revenue reaches USD1.8B in first 11 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Borneo Bulletin<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO (XINHUA) \u2013 Income generated by tourism in Sri Lanka from January to the end of November reached USD1.8 billion, which is a 78.3-per-cent hike from the same period in 2022, the latest data released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revenue earned from tourism increased to USD205.3 million in November 2023, which is over twice the revenue in November 2022, according to the CBSL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry told Parliament on Thursday that the tourist arrivals will spike in 2024 with more airlines coming into the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka welcomed 151,496 international tourists in November, the highest monthly number of visitors it received in 2023, official data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s cumulative tourist arrivals for the first 11 months of the year stand at 1.27 million, according to the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Borneo Bulletin COLOMBO (XINHUA) \u2013 Income generated by tourism in Sri Lanka from January to the end of November reached USD1.8 billion, which is a 78.3-per-cent hike from the same period in 2022, the latest data released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) revealed. The revenue earned from tourism increased to USD205.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}