Source: Monthly Tourist Arrivals Report, February 2020, Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority.
Table 2 highlights the tourist arrivals from the top 10 tourist markets in February 2019 and February 2020 along with a comparison with April 2020. With the declining trend of Chinese tourist arrivals due to COVID-19, the UK, Russia and Germany have become the topmost countries providing tourists to Sri Lanka after India. Nevertheless, the majority of European countries are suffering from COVID-19 and, therefore, the tourism sector of Sri Lanka has been dramatically affected, especially after losing tourists from European countries. In the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, that is in April 2020, tourist arrivals saw a significant decline. Further, tourist arrivals from all the top markets dropped from 84% to 100% by 2021 when compared with the 2019 figures for the same. As a result, Sri Lanka’s total tourist arrivals during the period between January to April 2021 have dropped by
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In the first five months of 2021, there was an 18.4 per cent decrease in the number of tourists, totalling 68,400, compared to 83,800 in the previous five months (August-December 2020).