Sri Lanka welcomed 200,244 tourists in July 2025, marking a 6.6% increase compared to the same month last year. This is the first time in four months that monthly arrivals have crossed the 200,000 mark, with the last such high recorded in March 2025 at 229,298.
The strong July performance pushes the cumulative arrivals for the first seven months of 2025 to 1.37 million, putting the country firmly on course to match or surpass the 2.33 million arrivals recorded in 2018 — the last full year before the Easter Sunday attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the tourism sector.
If current trends continue, Sri Lanka could be poised to regain its pre-crisis momentum, buoyed by improved connectivity, global marketing campaigns, and growing traveller confidence. (NewsWire)
