Sri Lanka Achieves Record Breaking 750,000 Arrivals

This is for the first time even that the tourism industry has received number of arrivals exceeding 700,000 mark, in any given year making it a ground breaking figure in tourism records. They offered a special gift and a complimentary package to the tourist arrived today keeping its promise of rewarding the 750,000th tourist and similar rewards were available for the 250,000th 500,000th , 600,000th tourist who visited Sri Lanka in the year 2011.

Sri Lanka Tourism’s aim with this campaign was to amalgamate domestic and international markets alike into one cohesive platform to develop these products by the end of the year, promoting Sri Lanka as a destination that can offer refreshing experiences for anyone who visit it . All promotional activities and events in the next couple of years will be aimed at achieving the target number of 2.6 million tourists by 2016.