Sri Lanka breaks attendance records

Since the beginning of the year, sri Lanka It received more than 750,000 tourists. For the first time in the history of the country, the tourist flow exceeded 700 thousand people.

According to the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Russia, the number of tourists who visited the island in 2010 was slightly more than 650 thousand people. Thus, this year recorded an increase in tourist traffic by 34.2%. Most foreign tourists came from Latin America, the Caribbean and Western Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany). And the number of Russians exceeded 14 thousand.

2011 was declared the Year of Tourism on the island. A new advertising campaign, “Refreshingly Sri Lanka – Visit 2011”, was launched. Its goal is to show Sri Lanka as a unique place that can offer a vacation for every taste to every guest. All events that took place in 2011 and will be held in the coming years are aimed at reaching 2.5 million tourists annually by 2016.

Source: http://www.travel.ru/news/2011/12/06/196123.html