Idea 70 of 500. Cluster 3: Souvenirs that are actually from here
A children's picture book of Sigiriya, Kandy or Galle in five languages, sold at the site
The mechanism, from the book
The Zermatt water bottle. Sigiriya has not got a stone with its own name on it.
Every idea in cluster 3 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Write 12 pages about one site, Sigiriya, Kandy or Galle, in simple English and ask a local illustrator for three sample spreads. Print 10 copies at a local printer and sell them at the site shop or a guesthouse for two weeks. Copies sold, and the languages parents ask for, tell you which translations to pay for first.
- Who pays first
- Parents visiting the site who want a book their children will read on the flight home, in their own language.
- What leaves today
- Children leave the island with nothing that explains what they saw; a local book in their language carries the site home and earns here.
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 Matterhorn water bottle and the souvenir that is from there
More from cluster 3
Idea 70 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.