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    Seasonality Variation and Its Impact on Local Economy (With special reference to South coastal area, Sri Lanka)
    (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Madushani, H.D.P.; Gunarathne, M.
    In recent decades, tourism has become a significant global phenomena with its massive influence on society, politics, culture and above all the economy. Seasonality is one of the unique and idiosyncratic features of international tourism and in Sri Lanka too. In Sri Lanka seasonal variation is very high for 30 years of time when compared with other South Asian countries. Seasonality is a problem related to the productivity of use of capacity. The supply side behavior and the labor market in tourism are affected by seasonal variation in demand. The main objective of this research is to identify the economic impact of seasonality variation of tourism in South coastal area, Sri Lanka. Primary data was collected by carrying out semi structured interviews using questionnaire. Secondary data was collected from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development authority (SLTDA) and an airport survey since 1968. The analysis indicates that some specific economic variables have a relationship with the seasonal variation using Gini Coefficient, regression analysis and time series analysis. This paper indicates the proof about the influence of some economic variables such as GDP, changes in price index and employment on the seasonal variation of tourist arrivals. Better marketing strategies, decreasing prices are some of the remedies for seasonal variation. The presented paper would be useful not only to tourism companies tackling seasonality and the government but also to further researchers.
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    A study about problems that farmers face in trading Agri products to economic centers (With special reference of Dambulla Dedicated Economic Center)
    (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Moragolla, D.; Gunarathne, M.
    Agriculture often appears to be one of the most difficult industry when it comes to trading agri products are concerned. The present study tries to find out the main proble that farmers face in trading agri products to Dambulla economic center? There are some other sub questions such as Do farmers take truthful fruitfully economic benefit in trading their agri products? Does the income of the farmers is cover only their marginal cost? What are the best media that rural farmers can use to transport their agri products to economic center and the success of recently launched plastic packing concept to transport agri products from rural areas? The key objective is identifying the main problems that farmers face in trading agri products to economic centers. The specific objectives are identifying does farmer’s income is only covered their marginal cost. Identify the best media that rural farmers can use to transport agri products to economic centers. Purposive sampling method is used to select the sample. The sample size is fifty farmers. Interviewing method with using questionnaire as a sub letter used to collect data. The logistic regression method and multiple regressions used to analyze data. Further, Isoquant curve analyzing also used to analyze data. The study derived some conclusions. Farmers in rural areas incuding price fluctuations, middlemen exploitation, storing problems, transporting problems such as rising fuel price and lack of suitable transportation media, packing difficulties and incomplete knowledge of farmers about the market. The income of farmers only use to fulfill their basic needs. The recently launched plastic packing concept also not a success step to transporting agri products. Hence, regular trading process is current necessity. So, government and non-governmental organizations must take to avoiding these problems in process of agri trading of farmers in rural areas. Government should promote the rural farmers. Because responsible of protecting Sri Lankan historical agriculture system. It is an important for sustainable development.
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