scholarly journals Impact of Destination Attributes on Tourists Destination Selection: With Special Reference to Cultural Triangle of Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Mohamed A. M. Raazim ◽  
◽  
M. A. T. K. Munasinghe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Ancillary Services ◽  
The Other ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Travel Agent ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Selection Decisions ◽  
The World ◽  
Destination Selection

Sri Lanka is one of the fastest-growing tourist destinations in the world. Amongst tourists’ attractions, “Cultural Triangle”, a region of the cultural heritage of the country has become the highest income generating destination. However, when compared with the other tourists’ destinations of the country, the number of tourists visiting the cultural triangle is low. As the literature reveals, the attributes of the destination matter in destination selection by the international tourists. Thus, considering the importance of this region as the top income contributor but not in terms of the number of tourists’ visits, this study problematizes the impacts of destination attributes on tourist`s destination selection. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to identify the destination attributes and their relationship with the tourists’ destination selection decisions. Data was collected through questionnaires from a sample of 222 foreign tourists who visited the cultural triangle during 2019 through a selected travel agent. Results of the multiple regression analysis revealed that attributes of Amenities, Destination Attractions, Accessibility, Ancillary Services, and Destination Environment as having a moderate positive relationship whilst, the service quality weak positive relationship with Tourist’s Destination selection. Destination attraction was identified as the most influential factor of all attributes. The findings of this study can be used by policymakers in developing destinations for tourists’ attractions in the country.

Two new species of Lagenandra (Araceae) from the Wet Zone of Sri Lanka

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 522 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-199
Author(s):  
INDRAKHEELA MADOLA ◽  
DEEPTHI YAKANDAWALA ◽  
KAPILA YAKANDAWALA ◽  
SENANI KARUNARATNE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Taxonomic Key ◽  
The World ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Conservation Assessments ◽  
Wet Zone

Taxonomic revisions are the most reliable pathway in unfolding new species to the world. During such a revision of the genus Lagenandra in Sri Lankan, we came across two new species: Lagenandra kalugalensis and Lagenandra srilankensis from the Wet Zone of Sri Lanka. The two new species were studied in detail and compared with the morphology of the other species described in the genus, and based on field collected data conservation assessments were performed. A detailed description for the two new species and an updated taxonomic key to the Sri Lankan Lagenandra is presented here for easy identification. Recognizing two new endemic members enhances the number of Sri Lankan species of Lagenandra to eleven and global to nineteen. According to the IUCN red data category guidelines, L. kalugalensis qualifies for Critically Endangered category under Criterion B1ab (ii,iii,v) + B2ab (ii,iii,v) while L. srilankensis qualifies for Critically Endangered category under B1ab (iii, iv) + C2 (a) (i, ii). Hence, immediate conservation measures are imperative.

Omar Noman. Economic and Social Progress in Asia: Why Pakistan Did Not Become a Tiger. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997. 324 pages. Hardbound. Rs 575.00.

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
Faisal Bari
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Korea ◽  
South Asia ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
The West ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World

Most people in Pakistan look towards the West for models of economic development, and some even look to the Islamic past. But in recent decades, the more spectacular cases have been much closer to home, and towards the East. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are already in the ranks of the developed, while China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand are making good progress. Despite the recent setbacks, their progress over the last three decades has been enviable. On the other hand, the countries in South Asia have lagged behind. Four decades ago there was little to choose between most of these countries, but by the seventies, the paths of some had clearly diverged, while others were beginning to diverge. Today, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka are amongst the poorest in the world, and on certain measures, they are the poorest! What happened in the last four decades? This is the issue that Omar Noman tackles in this book.

Perceived Tourist Harassment in Tourist Destinations

2021 ◽  
pp. 299-313
Author(s):  
Shamila Rasanjani Wijesundara ◽  
Athula Gnanapala
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Coastal Belt ◽  
The World

Tourism is a fast-growing industry in the world. Many developing countries have recognized the economic contribution of the tourism industry towards to country; therefore, it has been included as an integral part of their development strategies. Sri Lanka continues to use tourism as one of the incomes earning strategy of its nation. At present, a huge tourism development is continued while accepting severe issues occurs itself like tourist harassment. The nature of the harassment is different from destination to destination, and this study mainly aims to identify the harassment in Sri Lanka. The study carried out in Southern Coastal Belt, considering foreign tourists as the sample to the study. A pretested questionnaire was distributed among 600 foreigners to collect primary data for the study, and 530 questionnaires were valid for the analysis. The collected data was analyzed through exploratory factor analysis, which revealed six major types of harassment in Sri Lanka as a result of tourist consumption process throughout the vacation.

scholarly journals “Snake” by D.H. Lawrence in a Buddhist Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
EA Gamini Fonseka
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Buddha

Snake is a reptile, very much respected in many cultures throughout the world, depending on what species it is. Ornate snake sculptures in Sri Lanka, India, England, China, Greece, Rome, Egypt, Africa, America, Australia, etc. (Steel, 2021) are evidence of the respect the reptile earned in most of the ancient civilisations by becoming a seminal influence in the mythologies, folklores, beliefs, values, morals, rituals, and arts that have evolved in them. Coming from a Western Christian elite socio-cultural background, D.H. Lawrence gets fascinated by the asp rattler that he meets in Sicily in 1920, and in a while tries to kill it under the influence of his zoological knowledge and the warnings he has had on the deadliness of its venom. Later he feels relieved that his attack did not hurt the snake and yet regrets his being indecent to the creature. Lawrence’s delayed realisation of the snake’s right to existence tallies the example of unreserved compassion towards life, irrespective of what species it is, the Buddha sets during his two famous encounters with lethal snakes. Unlike Lawrence’s silent snake, one of the two snakes the Buddha encounters protects him from the rain, and the other vertically challenges him, spraying his deadly venom at him. Nevertheless, the Buddha’s only reaction to them both is to unveil his compassion indiscriminately. Unlike Lawrence, he concludes both encounters without regret. Taking the respective behaviours of Lawrence and the Buddha in the presence of snakes, this paper proposes that, in preventing regret, while managing interactions with other forms of life, compassion inspired by spirituality transcends all other emotions engendered by fascination and apprehension that are part and parcel of Lawrence’s religion, “flesh and blood”

scholarly journals Diary from Sri Lanka's east coast: departure

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 387-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Rose
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Fatal Attack ◽  
As If

The day I leave Ampara on Sri Lanka's east coast, a wild elephant kills a woman and severely injures two others on the road near my house. This is the second fatal attack in town this year and, as before, the animal is rounded up and bundled back to the jungle in a truck. The incident seems to encapsulate something important about the nature of Sri Lanka: dark forces coiled beneath an appearance of calm. In the past month, for example, three security guards have been gunned down at hospitals in Ampara, Batticaloa and Sammanthurai. Yet the world of crisp nursing bonnets and clinical order remains intact throughout. No one knows who the killers were or how they chose their victims, but in this smoke and mirror conflict, rumours are fuelled of a final push by one side or the other. Then nothing happens, just more of the same, daily isolated encounters, as if it were in no one's interest to go for all-out war. Meanwhile the world's attention moves on to Lebanon.

scholarly journals A Review on Halal Tourism: an Analysis on the Parameters

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Rahmad Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World

Halal has become a global issue today, not least in Indonesia. At the state level, Indonesia is planned to become the world halal center. This is clearly seen by the Ministry of Tourism trying to increase the number of tourists visiting Indonesia, especially visiting halal tourist destinations. Some regions are trying to compete to become areas that are friendly to halal tourism, including Lombok, Aceh and finally Malang City. Regarding the halal tourism trend, it is important to know about the concepts and parameters used in implementing halal tourism. This study aims to conduct an in-depth analysis of the concept of halal tourism and several parameters that are used as standard for halal tourism destination. The method of data collection uses documentary methods based on a review of both primary and secondary literature. The results of this study are that the concept of halal tourism can be classified into two importance aspects; first, the act of obedience, which described as a way to appreciate the greatness of God’s creation. Second, the act of fulfilling an economic demand. While the parameters of halal tourism have to meet material and spiritual criteria, such as the activities have to meet shariah regulation which avoid syirk, disobedience, tabdzir or israf, and falsehood. On the other hand, the availability of services and infrastructure which meet the Muslim tourist criteria.

scholarly journals ENHANCING MARKETING OF FARIZ HOTEL THROUGH COORPERATING WITH GLOBAL TRAVEL AGENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Anrico Jusuf Setiadi ◽  
Salsabila Salsabila ◽  
Yusak Adheo Widyarta ◽  
Thet Htar Zin
Keyword(s):  
International Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Domestic Price ◽  
Travel Agent ◽  
Travel Agents ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Foreign Travel ◽  
The Right ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Global Travel

According to Explore Wisata (2017) Malang is a city that has many tourist destinations. Most of them located in area of Batu, there are many interesting tourist destinations. This is balanced by the number of hotels ranging from budget hotels to high star hotels that are spread around Batu. Fariz hotel is one of the hotels that compete in the budget class hotel that is surrounded by Batu area. Although Fariz hotel is a budget hotel, Fariz hotel has the better quality and service compared to the other budget hotels. Author gives an idea to make Fariz hotel entering international market. The author planned business to business co-operation to bring Fariz hotel to international. By cooperating with foreign travel agents who have package tours to Indonesia, Fariz Hotels can be added in the hotel list for the travel agent. The author chose to cooperate with foreign travel agents because the foreign tourists who will traveling usually entrusted the choice of hotel to travel agents. By entering the list of hotels in Fariz travel agent hotel will be more easily visited by foreign tourists. After cooperating with foreign travel agent, Fariz hotel will determine the right price for hotel package, hotel package price for foreign guests is certainly more expensive compared to domestic visitors, but with a slightly higher price than domestic price. With this price foreign guests will have a better service that equivalent to international budged hotel.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Determinants of Tourists’ Buying Behaviour in Sri Lanka: With Special Reference to Tourism Destinations in Down South of Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
N. P. Ravindra Deyshappriya ◽  
A. A. Idroos ◽  
U. G. O. Sammani
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Buying Behaviour

Aims: This study models tourists’ buying behavior in Sri Lanka analyzing key determinants of tourists’ buying behavior along with demographic characteristics of the tourists. The study focuses on how Marketing Mix Factors, Situational Factors and Personal Factors and other demographic factors affect tourist buying behavior in three tourist destinations in Down-South of Sri Lanka. Methodology: Data were collected from 500 tourists who visited three main tourist destinations such as Hikkaduwa, Unawatuna and Mirissa located in Down-South of Sri Lanka. Both descriptive and econometric analyses were employed to accomplish the objectives of the study. Results: The results of the descriptive analysis suggest that most of the tourists were from countries such as Russia, Germany and United Kingdom and their main purpose of the visits were recreation and leisure followed by education and health. Moreover, the respondents stayed 20 days on average in Down-South. However, it was observed that tourists’ spending per day is significantly low and more than 69% of the tourists spent less than 100$ per day. The econometric findings emphasize that all three key determinants of consumer buying behaviour– marketing mix factors, situational factors and personal factors positively affect the tourists’ buying behavior. Apart from that, personal factors have been recognized as the most influential factor of tourists’ buying behavior in the context of Sri Lanka. Furthermore, demographic characteristics of tourists such as gender, marital status, education level and employment status also affect tourist buying behavior. Conclusion: Hence, appropriate policies are required to enhance the quality of all indicators of the marketing mix, situational factors and personal factors in order to increase tourists’ buying behavior. Similarly, the current study also recommends the implementation of efficient policies to ensure security, cultural harmony and political stability in order to uplift tourists’ buying behavior pattern.

Representation of Bali in Tourism Advertisement Videos

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi ◽  
Putu Nur Ayomi ◽  
Komang Dian Puspita Candra
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Travel Agent ◽  
Travel Destination ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Relational Process

Employing the Halliday’s theory of transitivity (1985), this study explores the representation of Balinese religion, culture, and nature in the Bali tourism advertisements videos produced by Bali’s Tourism Office, Bali Tourism Board and Ministry of Tourism of Indonesian Republic. The study reveals that the language of the advertisements mostly describes Bali in terms of material process, mental and relational process.  In terms of relational process, the beauty of Bali’s culture and nature is capitalized and portrayed as having certain kind of qualities: indicated by the use of adjectives typical to tourism advertisement such as mesmerizing, exotic, unique, etc. and it is constantly defined as paradise. A stark difference, however, occurs in terms of the participants of the clause. In the advertisement produced by the Bali Tourism office, the participants having the role of ‘actors’,  ‘senser’  and ‘carrier’,  are  Balinese people, Bali’s nature, and culture. The advertiser, taking the position of ‘we’, the Balinese, speaks to the world, explaining their home island, culture and belief.  On the other hand, the more ‘mainstream’ advertisements of Bali, give more to the prospective tourists, addressed as ‘you’.  Here the tourists are the actors and sensers of everything Bali can offer.  Bali is depicted as purely a travel destination that can satisfy the visitors and in the position of passive ‘phenomenon’ and ‘goals’. The advertisers are taking the position of ‘the travel agent’, the third party that promotes Bali

The Tourism Industry and the Marine Environment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Professor John Swarbrooke
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Responsible Tourism

Throughout this book we have been looking, primarily, at the negative impacts of tourism on the marine environment. It would appear reasonable to lay the blame for this at the door of the tourism industry, which facilitates the vacations that cause this harm and makes money from exploiting the marine environment and the other natural resources of tourist destinations around the world. However, things are not always that simple, as we will see in this chapter. For in tourism, and certainly land-based tourism, it has often been the tourism industry itself, and particularly the tour operation sector, which has often been leading the way on responsible tourism, often with little encouragement from the tourists themselves and usually no government regulation forcing them to act. Their motives may not have been altruistic but, nevertheless, they have taken action on a number of fronts, while events like the Responsible Tourism Days at World Travel Market in London have sought to share good practice around the tourism industry.

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