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Sri Lanka is continuing to draw foreign visitors to its tropical shores with numbers increasing by 11.6 percent in February when compared with the same month in 2012 along with a marked increase in Chinese tourists, official data show.
Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority said today that 93,232 tourists arrived compared with 83,549 in February 2012, which is an 11.6 percent increase, Xinhua reports.
Arrivals recorded a 12.5 percent increase in the first two months of this year with numbers reaching 190,643. Chinese tourists recorded an impressive 89.1 percent increase in February 2013 when co..'
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