An Assessment of the Impacts of Tourism in Sri Lanka

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Tourism - Miscellaneous Griffith University course: PhD language: English abstract: After the end of nearly three decades of civil war in 2009 Sri Lanka is experiencing a tourism boom with a record level of international tourist arrivals. The Sri Lankan government has now identified tourism as a main component in its post-war development strategy. Despite this new policy enthusiasm there is dearth of research on tourism in Sri Lanka. The purpose of this study therefore is to contribute to the literature on tourism in Sri Lanka in a number of ways. First it provides a systematic historical narrative on Sri Lankan tourism and explains how Sri Lanka missed opportunities in the past. Second it develops a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model focusing on tourism and constructs a database with an emphasis on tourism. Third it examines the economy-wide effects of the post-war tourism boom in Sri Lanka.