This chapter provides a detailed introduction to the research project by discussing the background of the study, factors that motivated the research, significance of it and the objectives I wish to attain at the end of the study. The chapter concludes by providing an outline of the dissertation.
1.1 Background Tourism is one of the largest and fast growing industries in the world today. It had begun at the beginning of the time. People were used to travel for food, water, safety and resources in the early times. After they stabilized with those common needs they used to travel for pleasure and for their personal matters. According to the global tourism, 2016 was remarkable year for tourism. International tourist arrivals continued its upward
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It is popular as a name of Ceylon, situated in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal. Being a small island of 65,610 square kilometers with amazing beaches, ancient cities, indigenous wildlife species, mountains, waterfalls and many other picturesque places added a value for the tourism in the country since it expedites a tourist to explore the whole country via a car in length and breadth within a short period.
Sri Lanka had started modern commercial tourism in the year 1960. According to the figure 1.1 it can be clearly seen that, in generally there were considerable increments of arrivals in every year. However, terrorist attacks and civil war made great effect for the reduction of the arrivals in the period 1983 to 2009. Apart from that the natural disaster Tsunami in year 2004 and global economic crisis in 2008 also made major impact for reduction of the arrivals. With the end of 26 years of civil war in the year 2009, the country became popular as a safe tourist destination and it shows remarkable growth of arrivals. Tourist arrivals have surged to a new limit of over 2 million (2,050,832) arrivals in 2016, which is an increase of 14.0 per cent over last year 1,798,380 arrivals (SLTDA,
In response to the question set, I will go into detail of the study, consisting of the background, main hypotheses, as well the aims, procedure and results gathered from the study; explaining the four research methods chosen to investigate, furthering into the three methods actually tested.
This study sought to answer three research questions. Although the questions have been presented in previous chapters, they are worth presenting again.
The second chapter is titled, “Setting and Methods” and sets out to make clear to the reader the specific methods and research conducted during the study. This study is the primary purpose of the book, and as with all research studies, how one conducts their research is incredibly important, especially if the study plans to be replicated at any point in time. The topics included in this cha...
The authors of this article have outlined the purpose, aims, and objectives of the study. It also provides the methods used which is quantitative approach to collect the data, the results, conclusion of the study. It is important that the author should present the essential components of the study in the abstract because the abstract may be the only section that is read by readers to decide if the study is useful or not or to continue reading (Coughlan, Cronin, and Ryan, 2007; Ingham-Broomfield, 2008 p.104; Stockhausen and Conrick, 2002; Nieswiadomy, 2008 p.380).
Now within the rest of this paper you will be finding a few different things getting discussed. Staring it off we will be discussing the articles that we have found to make our arguments and hypotheses. After wrapping up the literature reviews we will be discussing the hypotheses thus continuing onto our variables and indicators. Once we discuss our hypotheses we will be moving onto the research design. The research design will have our general issues, sampling, and methods.
International tourism can now be recognised as one of the biggest contributing sectors for many countries’ GDP. Moreover, it has transformed them in many aspects such as economic, socio-culture, and environment. International tourism involves activity of inbound and outbound tourist of a country and resident or non-resident visitors within the country (World Tourism Organisation 2014). The World Tourism Organisation has predicted the growth of tourism activities to increase by an average 3.3% up to the year 2030.
Thailand, Indonesia, and Maldives were thriving developing countries from the economic support provided by the tourism industry. The white sand beaches and lush tropical greenery found on one island could be replaced with glorious mountains and waterfalls form a short boat ride to another island. Tourism flourished because of the many interesting physical characteristics of the area. According to the CIA World Fact Book, Thailand offered its many visitors peaceful democracy and a southern isthmus known to be always hot and humid (CIA World Fact Book). Maldives present...
Nowadays in the rea of globalization, according to the World Tourism Organization, “seven hundred million people travelled abroad in 2003”, and the number is estimated to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. (International Labour Organization, 2005). Tourism is spreading in unusual places. A lot of people want to be in the midst of adventure. It is a vital source of revenues for the GDP of many countries. I partially agree that tourism hugely benefits the local community. This essay will discuss some of the economic, social and environment effect of tourism on the host community.
From ancient times Sri Lanka has been an attractive tourism region. its known as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean because of its location in the Indian Ocean and attractive coastline. In ancient times sri lnka was known as cylon. Sri Lanka has a zone of 65610 square km with 1585 km coastline. Because sri lanka close to the equator its has a hot and wet climate. There are many palm-studded beaches and has a hot wet climate of average temperature of 20-30 c degrees. The main tourist’s attraction regions are beaches and its cultural tourism places. One of the reasons why tourist like sri lanka is that it is less hazardous country. Sri lanka has a population of 20.33 million people. There are four main ethnic groups in sri lanka, Sinhalese,
There is not really a universally accepted definition of tourism. In 1994 the World Tourism Organization (WTO) revised its definition. It says the tourism comprises of 'the activities of persons travelli...
Tourism is an important and intricate element to society. It affects economical, social, cultural and environmental elements. Tourism can be argued to have a negative impact on the environment and decrease our already depleting resources, but tourism can also be argued to be a major contributor to strengthening economies, spread cultural traditions and improve people’s lives. Tourism
Tourism is the one of economic and social activities that increasingly vital. Number of travellers domestic and international is increasing. In fact, several countries in present world develop tourism sectors as primary sector which generate national income. According to Salah Wahab and Cooper (2003). Tourism is also sector which involves role that mutually link between government, private sector and also public.
It comprises of several things such as tasty foods, diverse culture, scenic trains, historical architectures, wildlife, and immaculate beaches. Possibly, it is one of the most spectacular scenery highlighted in this Sri Lanka. It is the place to get lost in the middle of the incredible frescoes, water gardens, and ancient ruins of fantastic rock fortress. Further, do not miss the bravura view from the top of the rock with rolling hills, and a jungle in all directions. Fritter your vacation basking in the sun on a hammock at the small village of Mirissa. Amazingly, Mirissa is one of the most stunning beach gateways and critical revenue of Sri Lanka tourism. You will forget the real world immediately you enter Mirissa paradise. No wonder it has been incorporated as a great place to visit in Sri Lanka for your incredible
At the present time, one of the inseparable parts of the economic growth is considered as tourism industry. Commonly, tourism is the movement of people to other places for business or leisure purposes as well as covers their activities. Holloway and Humphreys defines that the places where tourists come and spend their money are called as “tourist destinations” in other words “receiving areas”. Many countries have been improving tourism to overcome economic difficulties since it is growing fast. The industry activities have been demonstrated a general positive trend in the economy and it has already become the inherent part of economic development. In host countries, tourism has led to such positive consequences as the improved infrastructure,
Meta Description: Sri Lanka’s capital offers some good tourism in Colombo. The country-cum-capital has some really beautiful places to visit.