According to a the Central Bank of Sri Lanka tourist arrivals in March increased by 22% to 192,841. Furthermore the numbers between the periods of January to March 2016 too grew by 22.1% to 584,818.

As projected the growth of tourism sector has continued to move leaps and bounds. When compared with the numbers last year within the period of January to December 2015 the recorded growth was presented as 17.8%. This amounted to the number of 1,789,380 tourists. The performance of the current year in its early month may suggest a larger growth this year.

On average the monthly average for the present year was presented as 194, 939 tourists, which is a significant increase from the monthly average of the 2015 which amounted to 149,865 tourists. The report presented by Central Bank’s Additional Director D. Kumarathunga said within the last six months of 2015 the average number of tourist arrivals amounted 161,388 which is a significant number when compared to the numbers on average for the last six months in 2014 which was 133,300 tourists.