Idea 468 of 500. Cluster 25: Sport and the cricket economy
Cricket tourism packages built around the international calendar and the domestic grounds
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
Take the next international home series and draft a 5-night package around one match: tickets, a guesthouse near the ground, a day watching domestic cricket at a club ground, and a dinner with a former player. Price it per person and post it to 2 or 3 travelling supporters' groups abroad. The proof is enquiries with dates attached, or a single paid booking.
- Who pays first
- A travelling supporters' group from another cricket nation, which already follows its team abroad and would rather someone local sorted the tickets and rooms.
- What leaves today
- Visiting fans book through operators in their own countries, so the package margin leaves and the domestic grounds earn nothing from the international calendar.
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. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
Cricket among the things Sri Lankans have built
More from cluster 25
- 466Cricket academies for the children of Sri Lankans abroad and the world's, in the school holidays
- 467Coaching exports: Sri Lankan coaches contracted to clubs abroad through one agency
- 469Surf competitions on the east coast on the world calendar
- 470Marathon and trail-running events in the hills and the ancient cities, with the medal worth keeping
- 471Sports-physio and rehabilitation clinics serving the touring teams and the visitors
- 472Equipment manufacturing: bats, balls and kit, which India does and we do not
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.