Tea is Sri Lanka’s largest agricultural export and fetched $1.02 billion in 2007‚ its third highest foreign exchange earner after garments and remittances from Sri Lankans working abroad. The country is not likely to achieve its 2008 revenue and production targets‚ after demand and prices for Sri Lankan tea tumbled in the last quarter‚ with the slowdown possibly extending into 2009‚ Lalith Hettiarachchi‚ the head of Sri Lanka Tea Board‚ told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Production this year
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Using Traditional Arts to attract Tourists Traditional Dancing in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s Traditional dancing is a one major reason that attract foreign tourists to sri lanka. In this search for Traditional dancing ‚we are going to find out ‚ what are the dances ‚ their characteristics ‚ what musical instruments uses for the dance. There are three main styles of Sri Lankan classical dance: The Kandyan dances of the Hill Country‚ known as Uda Rata Natum; The low country dances of the southern
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“As the Government Agent of the District I was gazetted as a Deputy Director for Cooperative Development. This had been done with the idea of the Government Agent supervising the Assistant Commissioner of Cooperatives and the work of the Cooperative Department in the District for the purpose of implementing the agricultural development programme. I usurped the full powers of a Deputy Director of Cooperatives and ordered the President of the Morawaka Cooperative Union to use funds available with
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Geert Hofstede vs. Fons Trompenaars Introduction How do we market in different cultures? Although we have done many researches about the different cultures‚ marketing‚ which is as a discipline‚ has lagged behind other researches in recognizing the need for it. Before we have found the importance of marketing in different cultures‚ usually‚ the approach for marketing was too simple‚ and we often use the economic theory to explain facts and solve problems‚ however‚ international marketing and
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SRI LANKA Macroeconomics analysis Section C Group 4 Akhil Jain – 2C Anuj Agarwal – 6C Pranav Arora – 30C Shraddha Jha – 45C Vaibhav Srivastava -53C Vinit Patil – 55C INDEX 1. Overview 2. Macroeconomic Performance Indicators 3. Macroeconomic Challenge 1 4. Recommended solution to Macroeconomic challenge 1 5. Macroeconomic Challenge 2 6. Recommended solution to Macroeconomic challenge 2 7. Macroeconomic Challenge 3 8. Recommended solution
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marketers viewpoint 14 Appendices Table 1: fluctuations of the tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka during the civil war Table 2: International tourist arrivals % changes for the first 4 months of 2010 Table 3: Accommodation Capacity (Rooms) in Graded Establishments and its Regional Distribution - 1999 to 2008 Table 4: Direct Employment in the Tourist Industry - 2006 to 200861967 Table 5: Tourist arrival by month in Sri Lanka 11 11 11 12 12 13 15 References 16 Declaration 14 15 1 TASK
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Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimensions Comparison: Brazil and USA Power Distance: The US has a score of 40 in this category. A lower score in this category shows that our country doesn’t have such a wide gap between the groups that do or do not have the power in society. Brazil scored a 69 in this dimension. They accept more inequality between the leaders and less powerful in society. In their culture‚ it is important for them to know where they stand in the community‚ so they know how much respect
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International Business Administration Cultural Diversity Professor: Hans Hahn Summer Semester 2014 Cultural Dimensions of Geert Hofstede: Analysis of Colombia 10.06.2014 Soraya A. Suarez I. Register Number: 969800 Darmstädter Landstr. 64 60598 Frankfurt Tel: 0176- 708 59654 E-mail: sorayasuarez@gmail.com Content 1. Introduction 2 2. Culture 3 3. Colombia 5 4. Cultural Models and Cultural Dimensions 8 4.1 Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions 9 4.1.1. Power Distance Index 10 4.1
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Geert Hofstede ’s Dimensions of Culture an d Edward T. Hall ’s Time Orientations Hofstede ’s "dimensions of culture" were derived mainly from his extensive organizational anthropology research in the late 1970s and early 1980s – the scores are general comparisons of values in the countries and regions he studied and can vary greatly within each country. Although Hofstede ’s work is somewhat dated and has rightly been criticized on a number of grounds the dimens ions are useful in unders tanding
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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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