Sri Lanka welcomes its 2nd highest figure for the month of February, in 2025
Sri Lanka attracted 240,217 international tourists in February 2025, reflecting a 10.2 % year-on-year (YoY) increase despite a 5% month-on-month (MoM) decline from the 252,761 arrivals recorded in January 2025. Last month’s total arrivals figure slots in as the 2nd highest ever recorded for February. The highest ever February arrivals were recorded in 2019, with 252,039 visitors.
India with 35,728 arrivals remained the island’s top tourist source, accounting for 14.9 % of February’s total arrivals. The Russian Federation ranked second, with 30,295 visitors (12.6%), followed by 25,528 tourists from the United Kingdom at 10.6%. The other key markets included 17,233 Germans (7.2%), 15,469 from France (6.4%), followed by China with 11.690 (4.9%), Australia contributing 8,878 tourists (3.7%), Poland (3.5%), 6,439 (2.7%).from the US and Holland with 5,589 (2.3%) tourists making it to the top 10.
Year-to-date - the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority reports that India was the leading source market, contributing 77,381 visitors, followed by the Russian Federation with 63,337, and the United Kingdom with 46,560.
Total tourist arrivals for the first two months of 2025 reached 492,978, reflecting a 15.5% increase, from the 426,603 recorded during the same period in 2024. It has also realised 16% of this year’s goal. However, this year’s accumulative (Jan/Feb) total of 492,978 falls short of the government’s target of 616,624 (21%). The target set for February 2025 was 310,937 – whereas the actual total figure was nearly 30% (70,720 visitors) below that figure.
Revenue-wise, Sri Lanka Tourism aims to earn US$ 5 billion in 2025 compared to the $ 3.17 billion earned in 2024, and the $ 2.1 billion in 2023.
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