Sri Lanka records highest-ever tourist arrivals within a year in 2025

Sri Lanka has reached a historic milestone with 2,333,797 tourist arrivals, the highest ever recorded.

India remains the leading source market, with today’s flight from Thiruvananthapuram marking this significant arrival.

The symbolic 2,333,797th guests were Prof. Felix Beslin Pereira, Mrs. Reena Fernandez, and Ms. Ann Cristina Pereira, a family from Thiruvananthapuram, India, who arrived on SriLankan Airlines flight UL 162.

This figure surpasses the previous record of 2,333,796 tourists recorded in 2018, which had stood as the highest annual tourist arrival figure in the country’s history.

Source: Adaderana