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Tourism Minister Harin Fernando said on Monday that Sri Lanka earned $169.9 million from tourism in February. The figure was up from $169.4 million a year earlier, Fernando told the media, Xinhua news agency reported. According to the minister, more than 210,000 tourists arrived in Sri Lanka in the first two months of 2023, and 331.7 million dollars were earned during the said period.
The South Asian country recorded 102,545 tourist arrivals in January and 107,639 in February. The minister said that the cumulative number of tourists until March 8 is 234,547, which is 9.6 percent higher than the same period last year.
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