Susan Eardly

Susan Eardly

Susan Eardly

Susan Eardly (email) is a tour­ism entre­pren­eur in Sri Lanka, hav­ing foun­ded Serene Vaca­tions, a travel agency, with her hus­band Dinesh Pathir­ana. With a Mas­ter­’s in Busi­ness Man­age­ment, Susan has been a pas­sion­ate play­er in the tour­ism industry since 2004.

Why are travel & tourism workers growing mushrooms in rural Sri Lanka?

December 10, 2020
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Oyster mushroom abstraction. Image (CC0) via Pikrepo.

Susan Eardly and Dinesh Pathir­ana are empower­ing rur­al Sri Lankan fam­il­ies pre­vi­ously reli­ant on tour­ism income to devel­op sus­tain­able busi­nesses. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Ms Eardly dis­cusses funguses and answers the ques­tion: “Why fungi?”  (Thanks to “GT” Friend Richard Shep­ard for the intro­duc­tion.) Sri Lanka, the trop­ic­al island set like a pearl in the Indian […]

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