Rosan to introduce Caravan Park

by Shirajiv SIRIMANE

The five star Rosan Renaissance Hotel Kataragama is to construct Sri Lanka's first Caravan Park in Sri Lanka. This is expected to be set up in Kataragama.

Managing Director of the Hotel, Sagara Palihawardane who also owns and operates a five star hotel in Weligama speaking to the Sunday Observer from Australia said that he is now negotiating with a business partner in Australia for this project.

"I want to take advantage of the current political climate and to bring some innovativeness to the industry and this is why I decided to set up the Caravan Park with an Australian partner," he said.

The Caravan Park will allow both local and foreign tourists to camp in Caravans where meals would be served in the Caravan.

"The project while providing new employment opportunities would also open a new chapter in Sri Lanka tourism wooing a new brand of niche tourists to the country," he said.

India too has come forward to promote caravan tourism which involves the use of a specially equipped vehicle deployed on a tourist circuit and connecting it by road.

He said that the new airport and Harbour at Hambantota too would help their Caravan project.

Commenting on the recently concluded election he said that the inevitable political stability in the next few years will certainly bring about economic prosperity that we expect and what the government has planned.

"As far as the tourism industry is concerned I strongly expect a brighter future that Sri Lanka had never experienced before, hopefully by becoming the number one foreign income earning industry making a great contribution for the country's overall economic activity."

"The existing accommodation capacity will have to be expanded in order to facilitate the expected growth in the tourism industry and this would create a construction boom for the industry," he added.