Tourist arrivals rise 6.6% in July

Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals increased 6.6 percent from a year ago to 200,244 in July 2025, with visitors coming in mostly from India and the UK, data from the island’s tourism promotion office showed.

There were 37,128 visitors from India in July 2025, accounting for 18.5 percent of total arrivals, followed by the UK with 23,475, which made up 11.7 percent of the total arrivals.

There were 15,556 visitors (7.8%) from the Netherlands, 12,982 from China (6.5%), and 11,059 from France (5.5%).

Total foreign visitors for this year are 1,368,288.

Visitors from other European countries, as well as Canada and the United States, increased as the summer season progressed.