According to the department on tourism development of Sri Lanka, the inbound tourist flow has grown by 16.7% within seven months. The statisticians registered 543.2 thousand tourists.
India is heading the Sri Lanka-visit-list (97 thousand, 2.8% growth), Great Britain is the second tourist source (61.6 thousand people, 5% growth), Germany is on the third place (37.9 thousand people, 26% growth), France takes the fourth place (33.9 thousand people, 16.4% growth), than go Maldives (23.7 thousand people, 4.6%) and Australia (23.8 thousand people, 18% growth).
If composing in percent, Ukraine showed the most significant growth (114%), than Thailand (90.6%) and Denmark (71.4%).
27.2% more Russians have visited Sri Lanka in July 2012 if compared to same month of the previous year. 13.342 Russians visited Sri Lanka within seven months which is by 54.3% more than for the same period of the previous year.
114.8% more Ukrainians have visited Sri Lanka respectively if compared to last July. 9.5 thousand Ukrainians visited Sri Lanka within seven months which is by 107.2% more if compared with the previous year.