Tourists Return to Paradise Isle a Year After War’s End By Amantha Perera COLOMBO‚ May 17‚ 2010 (IPS) - A year since Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war ended on May 18 last year‚ tourists are returning in huge numbers to a popular beach destination located over 300 kilometres from where the last battles were fought. Nowhere is the relief at the end of fighting more tangible than on the beautiful beaches of Hikkaduwa‚ south of the capital Colombo. The war against the secessionist Liberation
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Paper No. 133 The History and Value of the Elephant in Sri Lankan Society by Ranjith Bandara and Clem Tisdell November 2005 THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ISSN 1327-8231 WORKING PAPERS ON ECONOMICS‚ ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Working Paper No. 133 The History and Value of the Elephant in Sri Lankan Society by Ranjith Bandara† and Clem Tisdell* † Department of Economics‚ University of Colombo‚ Colombo 3‚ Sri Lanka. Email: rbandara@econ.cmb.ac.lk * School of Economics
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CONTENTS Task One: Reaching the full potential of tourism 1 2 3 4 5 6 Introduction Tourism boom in post war era Need of the hour- enhancing quality of employment Inertia as an impediment Association of MACRO and MESO factors Prospective publications for the article 02 02 02 03 03 04 Task Two: appropriate strategy by harmonizing with ground realities 8 9 Introduction Labour Market below par with demand 05 05 06 07 08 09 10 Inertia as an impediment to expansion 11 Ground realities contradict
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IMaCS Research & Analytics TRAVEL AND TOURISM September 2011 Prepared by Industry Report on Sri Lanka And i Contacts: W Don Barnabas‚ Managing Director/CEO ICRA Lanka Limited‚ #10-02‚ East Tower‚ World Trade Center‚ Colombo 01‚ Sri Lanka Telephone: +94 11 4339907 Mobile: + 94 773417517 Fax: +94 11 2333307 Email: wdbarnabas@icralanka.com www.icralanka.com V Sriram Chief General Manager ICRA Management Consulting Services Limited India Telephone: +91 44 4596 4329
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1. SRI LANKA A DESTINATION FOR TRAVEL AND TOURISM 1.1Tourist arrivals through the years Over the years Sri Lanka has been a tourist attraction. The tourism industry in Sri Lanka has gone through an up and down road mostly due to the instability of the country. The graph below shows these fluctuations. Source: Annual Statistical Report of Sri Lanka Tourism-2007 & Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. The above graph shows how much Sri Lanka’s tourism industry has declined considering
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Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean‚ also often called the “The Pearl of the Indian Ocean”. Tourism in Sri Lanka has had its ups and downs. Such things like the civil war is now over‚ but for the past thirty years that the war was ongoing‚ a lot of people feared to travel to Sri Lanka and the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami . But despite all these events‚ the tourism in Sri Lanka is still one of the major profit generating industries. Sri Lanka may be a small island‚ but it has a
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| Health and Wellness Tourism in Sri Lanka | Assignment | | Group 04 | | Course: HTE 385-2 Health and Adventure Tourism Lecturer: Mr.Manoj Samarathunga | Hospitality‚ Tourism and Events Management Degree Program Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka Acknowledgement First and foremost we offer Our sincerest gratitude to our dear sir‚ Mr. Manoj Samaranayake Who teaches us “Health & Adventure Tourism” And also has supported us to do our report‚ “Health
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Critically evaluate the possibility of using tourism as a tool to develop post war Sri Lanka Table of Content Introduction Page No: Introduction 03 Main Body 04 Conclusion 13 Introduction In countries like Maldives‚ Malaysia‚ Singapore and Spain‚ tourism and related recreation activities play a significant role in the generation of income / foreign exchange and provision of employment opportunities. In fact‚ in the global context this industry is identified
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David Cameron‚ who is The United Kingdom’s current Prime Minister wishes to visit the war torn north of Sri Lanka in order to find out in detail what exactly went on over the course of about a half years’ time‚ and what has led to the horrific deaths of so many of its civilians. Cameron has requested a meeting with the controversial President of Sri Lanka‚ Mahinda Rajapaksa‚ after what the United Nations believes to be extremely heinous deaths of over 40‚000 civilians over the course of the last
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TODAY’S SRI LANKA Development’s from 2010 to 2012 TODAY’S SRI LANKA Sri Lanka successfully concluded a war against a terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009. There has been no terrorist violence in Sri Lanka since the end of the conflict. Today‚ Sri Lanka today is aggressively promoting ethnic reconciliation‚ redevelopment of conflict-affected areas and expanded trade and foreign investment for the restoration of normalcy throughout the island. Sri Lanka successfully
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