Purpose

Wars destroy the tourism cities by causing damages to their cultural and natural attractions. However, the post-war cities have great upward potentials to develop through careful and integrated tourism planning. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify the perspectives of local stakeholders on tourism development in a post-war city.

Design/methodology/approach

The study used qualitative methods in collecting and analysing the data while closely referring to pertinent literature. Interviews, observations and focus-group discussions have been the main data collection tools and content analysis was performed with NVivo (v.12) to analyse the data.

Findings

Analysis of interviews, focus group discussion findings and observations highlighted the availability of a plethora of tourism potentials within post-war Jaffna that include, both cultural and natural attractions: Hindu Kovils and Buddhist temples, colonial heritage, traditional cuisines and way of life, beaches, flora and fauna and sceneries. The study further identified a lack of professionals, absence of a master plan, remoteness, poor infrastructure and absence of tourist activities as main obstacles for tourism development in Jaffna. Finally, implications are forwarded based on stakeholders’ perspectives to promote post-war city tourism in Jaffna.

Originality/value

Wars are not common, and post-war tourism cities are rare. The present study is focused on a destination where the war has ended, causing much damages to the destination. The study evaluates the tourism potentials and challenges based on stakeholders’ perspectives and forwards implications for city tourism development despite post-war empirical glitches, which have rarely been addressed in the tourism literature.

中文翻译：

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战后城市到旅游城市：当地利益相关者对斯里兰卡贾夫纳战后城市旅游发展的看法

目的

战争破坏了旅游城市的文化和自然景点。然而，战后城市通过精心和综合的旅游规划有很大的发展潜力。因此，本文的目的是确定当地利益相关者对战后城市旅游业发展的看法。

设计/方法/方法

该研究使用定性方法收集和分析数据，同时密切参考相关文献。访谈、观察和焦点小组讨论一直是主要的数据收集工具，并且使用 NVivo (v.12) 进行内容分析以分析数据。

发现

对访谈、焦点小组讨论结果和观察的分析突出了战后贾夫纳的大量旅游潜力，包括文化和自然景点：印度教寺庙和佛教寺庙、殖民遗产、传统美食和生活方式、海滩、 动植物和风景。该研究进一步确定了缺乏专业人员、缺乏总体规划、地处偏远、基础设施薄弱和缺乏旅游活动是贾夫纳旅游业发展的主要障碍。最后，基于利益相关者的观点，提出了促进贾夫纳战后城市旅游的启示。

原创性/价值

战争不常见，战后旅游城市也很少见。目前的研究集中在战争已经结束的目的地，对目的地造成了很大的破坏。该研究根据利益相关者的观点评估了旅游业的潜力和挑战，并提出了对城市旅游发展的影响，尽管战后经验上的故障很少在旅游文献中得到解决。