Abstract
Within the extensive body of tourism literature, successful implication of sustainable tourism and obstacles to its practices in the developing world are emerging themes. This paper critically investigates challenges to sustainable tourism in the world heritage sites with special references to Kandy situated in Central Province of Sri Lanka. Through adopting a qualitative research method, a key issue for discussion in this paper is challenge to sustainable tourism in Kandy. Consequently, this paper provides an insight into sustainable tourism and suggests the ways by which these insights may be useful in the provision of sustainable tourism in other ancient heritage localities.
Highlights
This paper is mainly to investigate challenges that are associated with sustainable tourism in Kandy, Sri Lanka
Policy makers and practitioners in Sri Lanka have turned their attention to sustainable tourism or sustainable tourism development
Investigating and assessing challenges to sustainable tourism in the world heritage site Kandy situated in central Sri Lanka concludes following importance challenges; Like many other developing countries Sri Lanka lacks key infrastructure
Summary
This paper is mainly to investigate challenges that are associated with sustainable tourism in Kandy, Sri Lanka. This is timely very limited number of studies available that deal with Sri Lankan heritage destinations. Throughout the island following the declaration of peace in 2009, the tourism industry has been gradually developing. Policy makers and practitioners in Sri Lanka have turned their attention to sustainable tourism or sustainable tourism development. Researchers including, Ladkin and Bertramini (2002), Sharpley et al (2014) and Tosun (2001) who argued that recently many developing countries and small islands have benefited from shared and collaborative works of the multiple - stakeholder approached that has been the focus of sustainable tourism
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