{"id":15612,"date":"2025-01-11T14:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=15612"},"modified":"2025-01-11T14:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:54:48","slug":"sri-lanka-tourism-income-soars-over-53-pct-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/sri-lanka-tourism-income-soars-over-53-pct-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka tourism income soars over 53 pct in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Sri Lanka earned approximately 3.17 billion U.S. dollars from tourism in 2024, latest statistics from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) shows.<\/p>\n<p>This is a 53.2 percent increase compared to tourism earnings from 2023, which was about 2.07 billion dollars, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p>CBSL data showed that over two million tourists visited Sri Lanka in 2024, up 38.1 percent compared to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan government is targeting 5 billion dollars in tourism revenue in 2025 by attracting 3 million tourists, tourism officials recently said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka earned approximately 3.17 billion U.S. dollars from tourism in 2024, latest statistics from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) shows. This is a 53.2 percent increase compared to tourism earnings from 2023, which was about 2.07 billion dollars, the data showed. CBSL data showed that over two million tourists visited Sri Lanka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15615,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15612\/revisions\/15615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}