{"id":102450,"date":"2020-05-17T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102450"},"modified":"2020-05-17T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T22:08:07","slug":"tourism-needs-fresh-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/17\/tourism-needs-fresh-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism needs fresh thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr sarath obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Export Development \u00a0Board is quite active in trying to promote various export-oriented Industries to enhance foreign currency earnings for the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the proposals they are promoting is the development of nautical tourism which involves boat and leisure craft building and various marinas around the island<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the pioneers in Sri Lanka in nautical tourism Mr. Pier Pringers who is almost a \u00a0naturalized in Sri Lankan built few luxury boats to promote nautical tourism\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He invited the Tourist board to visit the boat which he called a Boutique floating hotel. Tourist Board misunderstood the meaning and visited the yard in Mirissa to inspect a boutique hotel\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we met the tourist board to develop Game Fishing, they thought that they have to approve a boathouse \u00a0and the ground accommodation\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourism board does not have a clue what is nautical tourism and in their marketing strategy they cover only ground-based hotels etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They hardly attended any of the EDB meetings to support\nnautical tourism which is the future<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government should appoint people who have broad-based exposure in the field of Nautical Tourism to support the bureaucrats who head these organizations\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera <br> CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard <br> Colombo <br> Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr sarath obeysekera\u00a0 Export Development \u00a0Board is quite active in trying to promote various export-oriented Industries to enhance foreign currency earnings for the country One of the proposals they are promoting is the development of nautical tourism which involves boat and leisure craft building and various marinas around the island One of the pioneers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}