“Good Tourism” in Sri Lanka

“Good Tour­ism” des­tin­a­tions and places in Sri Lanka, and the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the Indi­an Ocean island nation who are keen to show­case their good, their bet­ter, and their best.

Beyond sustainability: Regenerative hospitality helps restore Sri Lankan culture and heritage

August 7, 2025

"Good Tourism" guest author Dr Ashika Kalubadanage better appreciates her cultural heritage in Sri Lanka thanks to regenerative hospitality

Can cul­ture bundled into tour­ism products retain its ‘authen­t­ic’ cre­den­tials and deliv­er her­it­age value to host com­munit­ies and visitors? 

UK-based tour­ism edu­cat­or Ashi­ka Kalu­badan­age reck­ons so as she recon­nects with her own ances­tral her­it­age in Sri Lanka.

Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions for invit­ing Dr Ashi­ka Kalu­badan­age to write this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You can too.)

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Khiri Travel Sri Lanka reaps rewards for designing sustainable experiences

June 27, 2022

Khiri Travel Sri Lanka team explore Sri Lanka while creating sustainable travel experiences

With Sri Lanka open­ing its bor­ders for inter­na­tion­al tour­ists much earli­er than many oth­er Asi­an coun­tries, arrival num­bers have slowly star­ted pick­ing up since August 2021. Espe­cially since quar­ant­ine require­ments lif­ted for fully vac­cin­ated tour­ists from Octo­ber, demand has kept increas­ing.  Khiri Travel Sri Lanka anti­cip­ated increas­ing demand for more sus­tain­able and off-the-beaten-track exper­i­ences and […]

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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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Panic! The effect of travel advisories on tourism after terrorism

May 31, 2019
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Travel warning advisory notice: By Gerd Altmann via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/travel-warning-shield-stamp-2521727/

Sri Lanka-based villa agent Jack Eden calls for the travel & tour­ism industry to work pro­act­ively to dampen the dev­ast­at­ing effects of travel advisor­ies that exacer­bate the human and eco­nom­ic dam­age of ter­ror­ism. I wish to share my views — and listen to those of my peers — in rela­tion to what role travel advisor­ies play in the fight […]

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