Sri Lankan Tour Guide

 Nihal's War My teacup is the bottom cut from a blue plastic bottle and I am sitting on a rock with Sinhala soldiers near  Arugam Bay. The soldier's stopped our car and one tried to tell us why we couldn't go further but we couldn't understand his English. "Say it in Sinhala." I told him, "It will be easier for us." He and his friends were excited to hear their language coming from people they thought were foreigners and asked if we would like to have tea with them. They made it sound important so we said we would. There are seven soldiers camped under a tree that provides some shade for the rocks we are sitting on. they can see for miles in every direction, which means that the LTTE can see them as easily. Under our feet is sand and the vegetation is an occasional tree and many browning shrubs - it's the dry season and very hot out here. I don't know how these men can stand to be in uniform and wear boots but they only laugh when I ask them....

                 Technological Environment The tourism industry has proved particularly suitable for the adoption of information technology because of its dependence upon the supply and exchange of information throughout the production and distribution chain. As an extremely information intensive industry, tourism is undergoing rapid and radical Morden changes. A wide range of opportunities discover on daily basis through the used for information and communication technology. Now information technology is  a variety of function in the tourism industry. ranging form an internal organization role to external communication between different parts of the industry. The continuous development of information technology has profound implications for the whole tourism. Today, a wide range of tourism sectors is taking the advantage of the information superhighway. Technology facilitates the speed and efficiency with which information of the touris...

      Developing the Sri Lanaka Fashion Design Industry There are number of measure that can be taken in order to develop the Sri Lankan Fashion Design Industry. Since the industry is still in its developing ear, these are vital and also should be taken as soon as possible. Following are some suggestions which can be used to uplift the standards of the industry. Enforcing legal protection for Fashion Designs.  Considering the developed countries, there are laws to protect almost everything and it is applicable to the Fashion Design Industry as well. Design Piracy Prohibition Act which is an Act to amend title 17 to the United State Code, to extend protection to fashion design and for other purpose and Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act which amends the United State federal criminal code to revise provisions prohibiting the trafficking in counterfeit can be taken as two good example of protecting the design rights of Fashion Designers. Setting up a Professi...

Introduction  From early historical times. Sri Lanka has attracted foreign visitors. Many books. particularly by British administrators. have been written based on the different attractions of the Island. The first attempt to develop tourism in Sri Lanka was made by the colonial govemment prior to the Second World War. The Government Tourist Bureau was set up in 1937. Although international tourism in the modern sense was unknown at the time, the objective in setting up the Bureau was to provide facilities and services to the large volume of passenger who sailed between the West and East through the port of Colombo on passenger ships. Sri Lanka's primary location on the world sea lanes attracted many cruise ship, freighters and other vessels. Passengers that entered the port of Colombo disembarked and enjoyed sightseeing in Colombo, Kandy and their surrounding . The Tourist Bureau's primary responsibility was to service these passengers when they came ashore by greeting t...

         Challenges in Promoting Tourism Industry of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanaka has a long history of tourism, dating back to the times of ancient kingdoms. According to different sources of historical accounts, many foreigners have visited the country for various reasons. Ancient chronicles provide ample evidence of visitor such as Fa Hien, Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, not as tourists in the modern sense, but for different reasons visiting the country. Europeans stared visiting Sri Lanka from the beginning of 16th century mainly for trade, firstly the Portuguese and then the Dutch and British periods along with the expansions of international transactions of the country, especially rapid expansion of the plantation sector during the British period. Even though the Ceylon Tourism Bureau was established in 1937 to promote the sector; its functions were affected adversely by the Second World War. The tourism did not receive an adequate attention in the early stages of t...

   Personal Notes in Office environments in the 1990's Electronic mail. called e - mail was started in the late 1960 ' s by the armed forces of the United States of America. The army or military officers were looking for a way that communications could be carried out in the event of a large - scale nuclear war. They needed a system that would be very decentralized, reliable, and fast in case central institutions were destroyed. They came up with e -mail. In the early 1970's. e- mail was limited to the United States military, defence contractors and universities doing defence research. By the 1970's it had begun to spread more broadly within universities communities. By the 1980's. academics in a number of university disciplines were using e-mail for professional collaboration. The early 1990's saw an explosion of the use of e-mail and other computer networking tools for a wide range of professional, academic and personal purposes. whereas a few thousand people w...

              The Tourist Industry in Sri Lanaka. Tourism currently ranks fourth after garments, remittances form foreign employment and tea in terms of foreign exchange earning to Sri Lanaka. The country 's annual earnings form tourism in the year 1999 amounted to approximately Rs. 19 billion. The financial year 1999/2000 was a record year for tourist arrivals with a growth of approximately 8.2%  .  This growth was achieved despite the spate of bomb attacks during the culmination of the Presidential Elections in December and sporadic attacks thereafter, resulting in a reduction in arrivals during the months of December and January. Arrivals form Western Europe representing 63% of the total arrivals to Sri Lanaka increased by 7.4%. The united Kindom was the main contributor with 19% of overall arrivals while Germany followed with 17% contribution to the total European arrivals. There was a 36% growth in the tourist arrivals form the Australia...

Oceans The oceans are masses of water occupying a vast area of the surface of the Earth. But that is excluding all lakes and inland seas. There are five major oceans. They are Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans. Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world. It is located between the continents of Asia and America. There are ocean deeps in Pacific ocean, Mariana trench is 11,035m meters deep. It is the deepest place in the Earth. There are many islands like Japan, Philippines and there are many seas like Japanese(East Sea), Chinese and Okhotsk in this ocean. Atlantic Ocean Atlantic ocean is the second largest ocean in the world. Its location is in between two Americas and Europe and Africa. There are islands like West Indies, Cuba and Azores in this ocean. It has some seas like Mediterranean, Caribbean, Baltic and North sea.  Indian Ocean Indian ocean is the third largest ocean in the Earth. It is surrounded by the landmasses such as South Asia, ...