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Tourism & HospitalityIntelligence

Explore hotels, travel services, attractions, visitor trends and investment opportunities across Sri Lanka's tourism and hospitality sector.

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Registered accommodation by type, from SLTDA's Year in Review 2025.

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Tourism Trends & Insights

Visitor arrivals, earnings and accommodation over time.

01.0M2.0M3.0M2019: 1.91M20192020: 508K20202021: 194K20212022: 720K20222023: 1.49M20232024: 2.05M20242025: 2.36M20252.36M

SLTDA monthly arrivals, Dec 2025 · 2019 to 2023 from earlier SLTDA reports

$0m$1,000m$2,000m$3,000m$4,000m2024: $3,169m$3,169m20242025: $3,219m$3,219m2025

CBSL external sector bulletin, Dec 2025 · USD million, estimate

05001,0001,5002,000Guest houses: 1,8621,862Guest housesHome stays: 1,1601,160Home staysBungalows: 1,2681,268BungalowsTourist hotels: 211211Tourist hotelsClassified: 170170ClassifiedVillas: 5050Villas

SLTDA Year in Review 2025

+15.1%

Visitor growth in 2025

2.36MTotal visitors (2025)
USD 3.22bnTourism earnings (2025)

Tourism Activity by Location

Registered rooms by district, as at 2 January 2025.

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Jaffna: 757 roomsKilinochchi: 159 roomsMannar: 54 roomsMullaitivu: 52 roomsVavuniya: 147 roomsGalle: 10,021 roomsHambantota: 2,620 roomsMatara: 3,081 roomsAmpara: 846 roomsAnuradhapura: 1,830 roomsBadulla: 2,208 roomsBatticaloa: 1,004 roomsMonaragala: 951 roomsPolonnaruwa: 779 roomsColombo: 11,398 roomsGampaha: 4,865 roomsKalutara: 4,170 roomsKegalle: 693 roomsKurunegala: 645 roomsPuttalam: 1,669 roomsRatnapura: 835 roomsKandy: 4,657 roomsMatale: 2,561 roomsNuwara Eliya: 2,699 roomsTrincomalee: 877 rooms
Gampaha 4,865 rooms
Colombo 11,398 rooms
Kalutara 4,657 rooms
Galle 10,021 rooms
Kandy 4,170 rooms

Room density

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Top tourism districts (rooms)

  1. 1Colombo11,398
  2. 2Galle10,021
  3. 3Gampaha4,865
  4. 4Kandy4,657
  5. 5Kalutara4,170

SLTDA Year in Review 2025 · Table 09

Featured Investment Opportunities

Galle and Matara records, each backed by an official document. Check the agency before acting.

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Photo of the area: the coast at Thiranagama and Narigama, Hikkaduwa
Tourism Open

Beach-facing land for hospitality and leisure in Hikkaduwa (UDA)

The BOI lists a 0.0780 ha Urban Development Authority plot facing the Colombo–Galle road opposite the beach at Hikkaduwa, to be offered for hospitality and leisure development on a 30 or 50 year lease.

Colombo–Galle main road, Hikkaduwa Listed 30 Oct 2026 Board of Investment of Sri Lanka
Illustrative photo: an empty green lot under coconut palms
Tourism Open

SLTDA tourism land bank: 4 sites in Galle district

SLTDA's public tourism land bank lists four sites in Galle district for tourism investment: Dedduwa Lake Resort (694 ha) and three small plots at Ambalangoda, Baddegama and Unawatuna.

Galle district (4 sites) Listed 30 Oct 2026 Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority
Illustrative photo: open fields near Akuressa, Matara district
Tourism Open

SLTDA tourism land bank: 6 sites in Matara district

SLTDA's public tourism land bank lists six sites in Matara district for tourism investment, four of them around Mirissa and Weligama and the largest, 2.7 ha, in Matara town.

Matara district (6 sites) Listed 30 Oct 2026 Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority

Tourism businesses in Galle & Matara

1,938 listed in the pilot districts: 1,284 in Galle and 654 in Matara. Pick a sub-sector to drill into districts, DS divisions and businesses.

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Official figures for the same districts
GalleMatara
PopulationDCS Census of Population and Housing 2024 · 20241,097,372837,889
Registered business placesDCS District Statistical Handbook 2025 · 202413,36515,616
Registered restaurants & canteensDCS District Statistical Handbook 2025 · 20249421,126

A few listings

Listings in this directory for Galle and Matara: OpenStreetMap, the SLTDA licence list and the contractor register. Not every business is listed yet.

Supply chain in Galle & Matara

Who supplies the sector, and who it supplies. Counts are listings in our directory and OpenStreetMap data for the two districts; open a step to drill down.

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Chain curated by Backend team (2026-10-30). "No listings in our data yet" marks a gap in our coverage, not an absence of businesses.

Tourism businesses on the map

Listings in the directory's pilot districts, by DS division. Open Galle or Matara to see individual businesses.

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Map of Sri Lanka's districts shaded by the number of listed tourism businesses in Galle and Matara; other districts are coming soon.Jaffna: coming soonKilinochchi: coming soonMannar: coming soonMullaittivu: coming soonVavuniya: coming soonHambantota: coming soonAmpara: coming soonAnuradhapura: coming soonBadulla: coming soonBatticaloa: coming soonMonaragala: coming soonPolonnaruwa: coming soonColombo: coming soonGampaha: coming soonKalutara: coming soonKegalla: coming soonKurunegala: coming soonPuttalam: coming soonRatnapura: coming soonKandy: coming soonMatale: coming soonNuwara Eliya: coming soonTrincomalee: coming soon

District outlines: geoBoundaries gbOpen LKA ADM2 boundaryID LKA-ADM2-46371173 (build Dec 2023, file commit 9469f09). Original geometry: OpenStreetMap and Wambacher, ODbL 1.0. Simplified in this repository for display. Not a legal boundary. DS division outlines: Survey Department of Sri Lanka via OCHA COD-AB v03 (CC BY-IGO 3.0), simplified for display. Not legal boundaries.