Sri Lanka's January tourist arrivals jump 32.6 pct yr/yr

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Feb 7 (Reuters) - Tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka jumped 32.6
percent year-on-year in January, government data showed on
Friday, with the number of foreign visitors rising for the 57th
straight month since the near-three-decade civil war ended in
May 2009.
Total arrivals hit record highs in 2013, while revenue from
the island nation's leisure sector also peaked last year. [ID:
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The following table shows tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka:
2014 2013 Change
(in %)
January 146,575* 110,543 32.6
* Provisional
Arrivals in the last two years:
2013 2012 Change
(in %)
Jan-Dec 1,274,593 1,005,605 26.7


Latest data on tourism earnings (in U.S. dollar mln)
2013 2012 Change
(in %)
Jan-Nov* 1,119.6 905.3 23.7
* Latest provisional central bank data

Tourism earnings in the last two years: (in U.S. dollar mln)
2012 2011 Change
(in %)
Jan-December 1,038.7* 830.3 25.1
Tourism is one of the main foreign exchange earners for Sri
Lanka's $59 billion economy, with the garment and tea
industries, and remittances from expatriate workers accounting
for the rest.

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