Browsing by Author "Wijesooriya, M.W.A.T.N."

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The Potential of Kandy for Cultural Heritage Tourism Development: Enhancing the Sustainability
(International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Wijesooriya, M.W.A.T.N.
Cultural heritage tourism has a tremendous impact on enhancing the sustainability. The sacred city of Kandy can be identified as one of the UNESCO world heritage sites in Sri Lanka and it has become a popular destination among the domestic and the international tourists. Kandy is the last kingdom of Sri Lanka which has a rich Sinhala Buddhist tradition with tangible and intangible attractions. Most of the tourists travel to Kandy to explore the experience of religious and cultural values. Apart from that, there are many stakeholders supplying their service to tourists at the destination. Also, when promoting Kandy, we want to consider the environmental, economic and socio-cultural sustainability and minimize the risk of arising the issues according to those sectors. Through the research expects to identify the potentials of cultural heritage tourism in Kandy and how should we enhance the sustainability within the sectors of economic, socio -cultural and environmental. As the specific objectives of the research are to organize a proper program in socio economic aspect of the host community. The study reveals the comprehensive analysis of cultural resources in Kandy. The empowerment of community and the other stakeholders of the cultural heritage is the key to address long-term sustainability in any of the cultural heritage destination. Therefore, the researcher is focusing on how to achieve the sustainability in Kandy with the development of cultural heritage tourism. And more consideration goes to minimize the issues thereby promote the Kandy as a sustainable cultural heritage tourism destination. The research is conducted on both qualitative and quantitative methods, where primary and secondary sources are referred in data collecting and the sample of 50 tourists and 50 community members in Kandy randomly selected and SWOT analysis were used to identify the sustainability level in Kandy for the research
Research on “Development of Events for Sri Lankan Tourism with Reference to Thailand and Singapore”
(Department of Archaeology, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, 2017) Yapa, Y.A.S.H.; Wijesooriya, M.W.A.T.N.
Research on Interconnection between MICE and city Tourism: A case study in Colombo city
(Department of Archaeology, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, 2017) Yapa, Y.A.S.H.; Wijesooriya, M.W.A.T.N.
Sustainability of Cultural Heritage Tourism: A Study Based on Cultural Triangle in Sri Lanka
(Journal of Archaeology, Tourism & Anthropology, 2020) Wijesooriya, M.W.A.T.N.
Cultural heritage tourism is one of the fastest-growing forms of tourism. The cultural triangle in Sri Lanka has great potentiality to develop cultural heritage tourism as it consists of unique cultural and heritage attractions including five of the UNESCO world heritage sites. Enhancing Sustainability is the key factor for developing the cultural triangle as one of the sustainable cultural heritage tourism destinations. Through the research, focus to identify how to achieve sustainable cultural heritage tourism in the cultural triangle. The main objective of the study is to achieve destination sustainability and identifying the potentiality for cultural heritage tourism development in the cultural triangle. The research is conducted using the quantitative method and primary data use to test the four hypotheses and to identify the correlation. A structured questioner was given to the non-randomly selected 265 (N) international tourists to represent their perceptions. SPSS was used to analyze the data. The results reveal that the most visited attractions in the cultural triangle and the four hypotheses were accepted. As the major findings identified that stakeholder involvement, economic development, environmental conservation, tourist satisfaction are leads to achieve sustainable cultural heritage tourism development in the cultural triangle, Sri Lanka.