Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka rose almost 20% in June to 53,636 with the Middle East and Asia driving growth and Western Europe flattening, data from the tourism promotion office showed.Visitors from South Asia rose 22.1% to 18,431 with India rising 12,927 and Maldives rising 12.8% to 3,679. Visitors from India zoomed after Sri Lanka allowed on-arrival visas from the country in 2002, Lanka Business Online reported.Visitors from Western Europe edged up only 1.5% to 14,087 with UK arrivals dropping 17.2 % to 5,188. But arrivals from France rose 36 % to 2,019 and German visitors rose 31 % to 2,474.European arrivals peak during the northern hemisphere winter and Sri Lanka’s western coast is also less sunny during the local rainy season. However Sri Lanka is now opening up its East coast which is bright and sunny and calm during middle of the year, the report said.Middle Eastern visitors rose 79 % to 4,487 and East Asian visitors rose 32 % to 6,836. Arrivals from China rose 33.5 % to 1,132 from Japan up 48 % to 1,180 and Singapore up 18 % to 1,343.Visitors from Australia rose 6.7 % to 2,727.
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