{"id":6720,"date":"2026-07-27T12:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:17:29","slug":"tourist-arrivals-in-july-top-138000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/tourist-arrivals-in-july-top-138000\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist arrivals in July top 138,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A total of 138,730 tourists have arrived in the country thus far in the month of July, data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data released by the SLTDA, a total of 31,734 tourists have arrived from India which accounts to 23.0%. Furthermore, 14,949 persons from the United Kingdom, 8,484 from China, 8,415 from the Netherlands and 7,419 Australian nationals have also visited Sri Lanka in the month of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 2025, a total of 200,244 tourists visited Sri Lanka.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the number of tourists who arrived in Sri Lanka in 2026 has increased to 1,285,303 with the release of the latest figures for July.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among them, 325,417 individuals are from India, 123,526 from the UK, 84,655 from China, the SLTDA noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: The Morning <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 138,730 tourists have arrived in the country thus far in the month&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}