Business Today Sri Lanka Magazine - June 1997

In this issue

I forecast South East Asia to be the largest emerging software market. We will use Sri Lanka as a base to expand ourselves into the South East Asian Market from a development and supporting viewpoint.
Since its launch in December 1996, Suntel has been steadily progressing towards its goal of being present throughout the island by the year 2000.
Unlike most advertising agency heads who tend to maintain their flamboyant high profiles, Irvin Weerackody, Chairman of Phoenix Advertising is the reticent type who has to be cajoled into giving an interview.
Of late, the tourism arrival figures have gone down, come up, and are sort of dipping again. The pivotal question is, has the true potential of Sri Lanka's tourism industry been realized, or are the relevant authorities just sitting on it?
The plantations sector of Sri Lanka has had the rare distinction of providing the testing ground for finding out to what extent state control can be successful in managing large tracks of agricultural land.