Family-suite lodges near the parks, built for three generations travelling together

A first step

Ring 10 lodges near one national park and ask each whether it can sleep a family of seven across three generations in connected rooms, with a ground-floor room for grandparents. Note which cannot. Then offer one willing lodge a trial: you market a three-generation package to Sri Lankan families abroad planning a trip home, and it holds the rooms. One family booking proves the gap.

Who pays first

Sri Lankan families abroad bringing children and grandparents on a trip home, who cannot find one place near the park that sleeps them all together.

What leaves today

Large family groups split across hotels or cut the park visit short; a lodge built for them keeps every night and meal in one place.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. FiveThe Most Photographed Rock in the World
  The stay shortened by nearly a quarter, and the $2.4 billion gap

More from cluster 1

• 1Boutique eco-lodges with heritage views
• 2Luxury treehouse stays in forest margins
• 3Glamping with proper service, at sites with none
• 4Heritage homestays in family houses
• 5Floating cabanas on the ancient reservoirs
• 6Forest holiday villages on the Center Parcs model: lodges among the trees, a covered pool, bikes and a lake, so a family stays a week, not a night

All 20 ideas in this cluster