Sri Lanka is targeting three million tourists for 2019 Tourism Development Minister John Amaratunga said, after missing a 2.5 million target for 2018 partly due to a political and economic crisis triggered by President Maithripala Sirisena. "We are targeting three million tourists this year," he said on January 14 at the launch of an online entry permit service for the country's national parks. The country drew 2.3 million tourists in 2018 up 10.3 percent from a year earlier, missing a target of 2.5 million which was a growth of 18 percent.-Economynext

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