Comments on: Potato Farmer’s Anthropology Research: Part 1

By: Heshan

Heshan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:56:24 +0000

Can you post reliable data about the actual numbers of Tamil tourists to the North?

Also, from an economic point of view, how profitable is tourism? For example, the last time I went to Anuradhapura, some small chap came up to me and asked money for schoolbooks. This was in 06′, when tourism was steadily gaining. I have a gutsy feeling, though, that if I went in 16′ (2016), the chaps son would be asking yet the same thing. I don’t believe that tourism is necessarily sustainable in the long-term. I can’t *prove* that however, without some hard economic data. Notice that I said not *necessarily*; there seem to be places like Monte Carlo that get away with it; on the other their clientele is extremely limited and extremely wealthy (what does that say about expected profit margins?).

By: In Your Face

In Your Face — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:06:05 +0000

Ohmygod,

Please don’t torture us with this old ‘potato farmer’ metaphor, man!

Be creative…get cracking!

By: saman

saman — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:55:47 +0000

Tourist arrivals -SLTB
2008 2009 Growth %
January 56,916 38,468 -32.4
February 40,551 34,169 -15.7
March 38,049 34,065 -10.5
April 29,747 26,054 -12.4
May 31,140 24,739 – 20.6
June 27,960 30,234 8.1
July 32,982 42,223 28.0
August 30,672 41,207 34.3
September 29,529 37,983 28.6
October 35,103 37,575 7.0