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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Sports in Sri Lanka We Sri Lankans as a nation have faced three decades of bloody terrorism. The impacts upon our society by the conflicts are deep and memorable with brutal consequences. It has been a leach sucking the blood of prosperity and peace. It has influenced badly in every corner of our society and our economy. The sports in Sri Lanka had no strength to escape from the grip of the brutality of the era. Yet in this context at least some sports in Sri Lanka has managed to survive and played
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Consequences of Conflict in Sri Lanka Political consequence consequence (SC). (PC)‚ Economic consequence (EC)‚ and Social PC: Political consequence is an important consequence of the Sri Lankan Conflict. Armed conflict arose out of the intense displeasure of the Tamils at their discrimination. An armed group‚ the Tamil Tigers‚ was formed which resorted to attacking Sinhalese as well as Tamil officials who supported the ruling party. Many incidences of violence ensued including the 1983 riots
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Srilanka ... Public Transportation in Sri Lanka is based mainly on the road network which is centered on Sri Lanka’s capital‚ Colombo. Buses‚ three-wheelers and trains make up the public transport system. Airports‚ harbors and waterways are also there. Most of the roads in Sri Lanka are in good condition; however some roads in the rural areas might not be up to standards. Below are a list of means of transport that you can consider while visiting Sri Lanka: Buses more images Buses
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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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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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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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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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Causes of Conflict in Sri Lanka : Citizenship rights In 1948‚ Sri Lanka granted citizenship to those who were either born there in Sri Lanka or those fathers and grandfathers were born there. As a result‚ many Indian Tamils found themselves stateless. Though India tried to solve the problems‚ many Indian Tamils continued to stay stateless in the 1980s.In 2003‚ Sri Lanka passed the Grant of Citizenship to the person of origin Bill-Citizenship was given to any person or descendants of Indian
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