{"id":142887,"date":"2024-07-07T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=142887"},"modified":"2024-07-07T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T22:00:06","slug":"tourism-earnings-soar-to-over-1-5-billion-in-first-half-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/07\/07\/tourism-earnings-soar-to-over-1-5-billion-in-first-half-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism earnings soar to over $1.5 Billion in first half of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s earnings from tourism surged to over $1.5 billion in the first six months of 2024, marking a 77.9 percent increase year-on-year, according to the latest report from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourist arrivals in the first half reached 1.01 million, reflecting a 61.7 percent rise compared to the same period in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June alone, tourism earnings were $113.4 million, up from $100.3 million in June of the previous year, reported Xinhua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, workers&#8217; remittances for the first six months of 2024 totaled $3.14 billion, an increase from $2.82 billion during the same period last year. June&#8217;s remittance earnings were $519.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourism and workers&#8217; remittances continue to be among the top foreign revenue generators for the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka&#8217;s earnings from tourism surged to over $1.5 billion in the first six months of 2024, marking a 77.9 percent increase year-on-year, according to the latest report from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). Tourist arrivals in the first half reached 1.01 million, reflecting a 61.7 percent rise compared to [&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-142887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142887","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=142887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}