Tourism and poverty alleviation: special reference to the Heeloya community

dc.contributor.author	Harshani, A. A.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-01-23T09:08:50Z
dc.date.available	2020-01-23T09:08:50Z
dc.date.issued	2019-11-25
dc.identifier.citation	8th Annual International Research Conference - 2019, on "Sustainability through Business, Humanities and Technologies", pp.304-307.	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-955-627-195-9
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4309
dc.description.abstract	Since ancient times man has used to lead a nomadic life. They wandered from place to place looking for food, shelter and then for trade or war. Later man used to lead a settled life. But man continued to travel for pleasure, to visit other countries as well. Tourism started as an industry when Thomas Cook introduced it in 1841.Now this has become the world’s biggest profitable Industry. Therefore, most of the countries have focused their attention towards tourism. This research tries to examine the impact of tourism on poverty alleviation. Questionnaires were used to collect data. By means of graphs, chart and grid data has been depicted. Results of the analysis reveal that tourism positively impact on poverty alleviation in Heeloya Community.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Faculty of Management and Commerce, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka.	en_US
dc.subject	Poverty alleviation	en_US
dc.subject	Tourism	en_US
dc.subject	Heeloya community	en_US
dc.title	Tourism and poverty alleviation: special reference to the Heeloya community	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US