{"id":1800,"date":"2009-11-18T16:35:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2009-11-18T16:35:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:35:20","slug":"sri-lanka-is-preparing-a-master-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/sri-lanka-is-preparing-a-master-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka is preparing a master plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sri Lanka is preparing a 10-year tourism master plan covering new infrastructure in former war zones and avoiding the haphazard development that happened in existing resort areas, an official said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sri_lanka.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1801\" title=\"Sri Lanka\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sri_lanka-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lanka\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>S Kalaiselvam, director-general of the Tourism Authority, said a new master plan was needed to ensure planned, sustainable development of tourism in the island, which is emerging from a 30-year ethnic war.<\/p>\n<p>Already the authority has prepared plans for new resort areas including two in Nilaveli and Kuchchaveli on the east coast, and one in Kalpitiya on the north-west coast.<\/p>\n<p>It has invited local and foreign investors with proposals to build resorts for which land will be allocated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to do plans for other areas as well,&#8221; Kalaiselvam told a seminar organised by the US Agency for International Development to identify growth opportunities in the east for the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re preparing a master plan that will identify what is needed in various areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka intends to attract 2.5 million tourists by 2016, from just half-a-million a year today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The private sector is confident the target is achievable,&#8221; Kalaiselvam said. &#8220;The east coast has the best beaches &#8211; it is a good product.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is preparing a 10-year tourism master plan covering new infrastructure in former war zones and avoiding the haphazard development that happened in existing resort areas, an official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}