Abstract:
Within the extensive body of tourism literature, successful implication of sustainable
tourism and obstacles to its practices in the developing world are emerging themes.
This paper critically investigates challenges to sustainable tourism in the world
heritage sites with special references to Kandy situated in Central Province of Sri
Lanka. Through adopting a qualitative research method, a key issue for discussion in
this paper is challenge to sustainable tourism in Kandy. Consequently, this paper
provides an insight into sustainable tourism and suggests the ways by which these
insights may be useful in the provision of sustainable tourism in other ancient heritage
localities.
