Idea 474 of 500. Cluster 25: Sport and the cricket economy
Golf packages at the hill courses, priced for the Asian market
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 the secretary of a hill-country golf course for a written group rate on green fees for 4 players over 3 rounds. Combine it with a guesthouse rate and transport, price the package per player, and send it to the organisers of 3 corporate golf societies in nearby Asian cities through their public contact pages. One request for dates is the signal.
- Who pays first
- A corporate golf society in a nearby Asian city, looking for a cooler, quieter and cheaper weekend than the resorts it already knows.
- What leaves today
- The hill courses sit underused while golfers from the region spend their green fees and hotel nights at resorts in other countries.
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
- 468Cricket tourism packages built around the international calendar and the domestic grounds
- 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
Idea 474 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.