Sep 10, 2019
Visiting Sri Lanka but concerned about human rights? Then check out this fantastic new short video (below) by ’47 Roots’, a punchy round-up of some of the potential ethical pitfalls of your trip and how you can manage them. For further information about...
Oct 4, 2018
We are pleased to announce the re-launch of our Ethical Tourism Campaign, a resource pack designed to help those visiting Sri Lanka make informed choices about the human rights impacts of their travel spending. In it, we flag a range of tourism companies which...
Aug 22, 2018
A guest post from Nikhil Subbiah, who recently spent several months researching plantation communities in estates in Sri Lanka and Assam as part of Churchill fellowship. In June, a site of tranquillity became one of controversy when the owners of Warwick Garden Hotel,...
Jul 19, 2016
It sounds like bad satire. But last week, the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism (UNWTO) held a conference in Passikudah – a location on the East coast of Sri Lanka notorious for the...
Mar 5, 2015
Since the bloody end of the civil war in 2009, tourism in Sri Lanka has boomed. In 2014 alone, a reported 1.5 million people visited the island, generating an estimated $2.5 billion in revenue. And with a government target to attract 2.5 million visitors to Sri...
