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11 Дек 2009

Автор:
Elizabeth Becker, The Globalist

Dateline Sri Lanka: Tourism and Peacebuilding

…[T]housands of tourists are returning to Sri Lanka… If done properly, tourism could help unify Sri Lanka, whose war was driven by ethnic divisions between the majority Sinhalese Buddhists and minority Tamil Hindus. Not surprisingly, members of the country’s tourism industry are among the biggest promoters of tourism as a peace builder. “This is the perfect opportunity — either we make the right tourism that lifts up all the communities or ruin it…”said Hiran Cooray, chairman of Jetwing, one of Sri Lanka’s largest tourist conglomerates…