{"id":7043,"date":"2026-08-20T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:07:12","slug":"sri-lanka-records-113000-tourist-arrivals-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/sri-lanka-records-113000-tourist-arrivals-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records 113,000 tourist arrivals in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sri Lanka has recorded a number of 113,307 tourist arrivals during the first 16 days of August, bringing the country\u2019s total tourist arrivals to 1,456,725, between 1 January to 16 August 2026,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>according to the latest figures released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India topped as the leading source of tourists during the period, with 25,355 nationals, accounting for around 22% of total arrivals, followed by the United Kingdom (UK), with 12,738 tourists and France, with 8,106 tourist arrivals in the country, according to SLTDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India continues to lead the overall arrivals for the year, contributing 363,585 tourists, while the United Kingdom accounted for 143,139 arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: the Morning <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has recorded a number of 113,307 tourist arrivals during the first 16 days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7044,"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\/7043"}],"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=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7045,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions\/7045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}