{"id":90994,"date":"2019-07-03T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T22:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90994"},"modified":"2019-07-03T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T22:25:47","slug":"tourist-arrivals-in-sri-lanka-sharply-decline-after-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/03\/tourist-arrivals-in-sri-lanka-sharply-decline-after-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka sharply decline after attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"ng_byline_name\">BY BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"ng_byline_credit\">ASSOCIATED\u00a0 PRESS Courtesy The Modesto Bee<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><em>COLOMBO, SRI LANKA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arrival of tourists to Sri Lanka has rapidly declined in June, dealing a severe blow to the Indian Ocean island nation&#8217;s lucrative tourism industry in the aftermath of the Easter bombings that killed more than 250 people, the state-run tourism agency said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority said there were 63,072 tourist visits to Sri Lanka last month, a drop of 57% compared with June 2018, when the number was 146,828.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authority said the highest number of tourist were from India, followed by the Australia, United Kingdom and China. Almost 97% of tourists arrived by air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrival of tourists for the first six months was 1,008,449, a decline of 13.4 % compared with 2018, when 1,164,647 visitors arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI\u00a0 ASSOCIATED\u00a0 PRESS Courtesy The Modesto Bee COLOMBO, SRI LANKA Arrival of tourists to Sri Lanka has rapidly declined in June, dealing a severe blow to the Indian Ocean island nation&#8217;s lucrative tourism industry in the aftermath of the Easter bombings that killed more than 250 people, the state-run tourism agency said Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90994","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=90994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}