WHY NOT SRI LANKA? සිංහල

The mechanism, from the book

The country's best-known export is cricket, and little of the business around it is built at home.

Every idea in cluster 25 uses this mechanism.

A first step

Ask 3 Sri Lankan clubs with their own grounds whether they would host a touring amateur team for a match, and agree a fee for the ground, the umpires and the tea. Write a 7-night tour with 3 matches, rooms near the grounds and a day at the beach, priced per player. Send it to the secretaries of 5 amateur clubs abroad. A club that asks for dates is the proof.

Who pays first
An amateur cricket club abroad that tours every few years and wants real matches against local sides, with the grounds and rooms arranged for it.
What leaves today
Amateur teams abroad tour elsewhere, and the club grounds here earn nothing from the visitors who would love to play on them.

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 Starter Kit, printableOne click, no form, no name.

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. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
    Cricket among the things Sri Lankans have built

More from cluster 25

All 10 ideas in this cluster

WITH500BUSINESS IDEASTO STARTTOMORROW

Idea 468 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.

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