May 16, 2012
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals in April edged up 9 percent from a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday, with annual visitor numbers having risen every month since a 25-year civil war ended in May 2009.
The island nation's tourism board expects over one million tourists in 2012 with revenue of more than USD$1 billion, 20.4 percent higher than last year's USD$830.3 million. Tourism is one of the main foreign exchange earners for Sri Lanka's USD$59 billion economy, along with remittances from expatriate workers, garments and tea.
