Idea 78 of 500. Cluster 4: The experience economy
Photographers for hire at ticket offices, by the hour
The mechanism, from the book
An app that tells people what is happening tonight converts a day visit into a 2-night stay.
Every idea in cluster 4 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Stand near a busy ticket office for a weekend with a good camera and a card showing your hourly rate, and offer to photograph visitors for an hour of their visit. Deliver the pictures that evening by link. Hours sold, and groups recommending you to other groups, are the proof.
- Who pays first
- Couples and families who want photographs of themselves together rather than selfies, delivered the same day.
- What leaves today
- Every visitor wants good photographs of the visit and takes poor ones; a local photographer earns from a need nobody serves.
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
What a day visit needs in order to become 2 nights
More from cluster 4
- 71Evening cultural performances on a fixed nightly schedule
- 72Moonlit storytelling: the legends, the kings, the histories
- 73Royal feast dinners recreating historical menus
- 74Costume and photography experiences
- 75Archaeology-themed treasure hunts for children
- 76Private guided tours led by historians and archaeologists
Idea 78 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.