Idea 97 of 500. Cluster 4: The experience economy
Cricket-match packages: a ticket, a seat with a local who explains it, and the after-party
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
Buy four tickets to the next match near you and offer them to visitors through a guesthouse as a package: the seat, you beside them explaining the game, and an evening out afterwards. Charge a package price. Four seats sold, and guests asking about the next match, are the proof.
- Who pays first
- Visitors who have never watched cricket, or who love it, and want a seat beside someone who can explain every ball.
- What leaves today
- Visitors see nothing of the island's favourite sport; a package sells the match, the company and the evening.
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 97 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.