Why should we promote railway transportation in tourism, and why it need more research on this.

2. Tourists’ satisfaction level
and
factors they highly concern
on railway transportation
of Sri Lanka
Proposed Topic

3. What we already have about this topic
• Thousands of researches in the world about tourism• Thousands of researches in the world about transportation for
tourists
• Hundreds of researches in the Sri Lankan about tourism• Few of researches in the Sri Lanka about transportation for tourists

4. • Kandy • Anuradhapura
• Nilaveli • Passekudah
• Polonnaruwa • Pinnawala
• Nuwara Eliya • Arugam Bay
• Sigiriya • Colombo
• Negambo • Marawila
• Yala • Rathnapura
• Katharagama • Matara
• Hikkaduwa • Jaffna
• Reverstone • Kithulgala

5. •Identify the satisfaction level
•Identify first five things they like
•Identify first five thing they dislike
•Identify most wanted five improvements

6. Population and Sample
Number of tourists comes
to Sri Lanka
Number of tourists comes
to Sri Lanka by months
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
16000
18000
2010 2011 2012 2013
number of foreign ticket issued
number of foreign ticket issued
Number of Foreign tickets
issued by railway
department

7. Population and Sample
•Expected number of tourist 18000 tourists
•10% of the population
•Sample size 600 ( 10% of 4 months )
1800
16200tickets
10% 90%

8. Methods of Data Collection
• Primary Data
1. Interviews
2. Questioners
• Secondary Data
1. Tourist Board
2. Railway Department
3. Expo Rail company
4. Hem tours private (Ltd)

9. Methods of Data Analysis
• Analyzing the date by using standard sampling methods
in statistics ( likert scale, regression models )

10. Time Schedule
Observation of
Research area
( 1 weak )
Scientific
research design
( 2 weeks )
Generation of
hypotheses
( 1 week )
Problem
Definition
( 1 week )Literature
survey
( 2 weeks )
Data
Interpretation
( 4 weeks)
Data Analysis
( 3 weeks )
Data collection
( 18 weeks )
Hypotheses
Testing
( 2 weeks )
Report Writing
( 10 weeks )
Report
Presentation
( 2 weeks )
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Total
Weeks
48