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Sharing his thoughts at the launch,

Professor Jayantha Lal Ratnasekara
stated that “I think you will agree that
most of the higher education institutes in
Sri Lanka including state universities

have not given necessary attention to
research and development even though
they are our main academic functions”.
He appreciated the effort made by the

Faculty of Management Studies in
launching this journal providing an
avenue for dissemination of new

knowledge in and out of the South Asian
context.

The editorial team of SAJTH comprises an Dr. Sarath Munasinghe (Sabaragamuwa
eminent panel of researchers representing the University of Sri Lanka), Dr. Sampath Wahala

Asian sub-continent. Professor Athula (Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka), Prof.
Gnanapala (Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lee Jollife (New Brunswick University,
Lanka) heads the journal as a Co-Editor-in- Canada), Prof. Rachel Dodds (Ryerson

Chief with Professor Malcolm Cooper University, Canada), and Prof. Stephen Boyd
(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, (Ulster University, Northern Ireland) are
Japan). Dr. Rangana Shalika (Sabaragamuwa working on the journal as the editorial
University of Sri Lanka) and Dr. Jayantha N. advisory board.

Dewasiri assisting as Managing Editors of the
journal. The Journal accommodates three types of
papers. Firstly, research papers, which will be
Prof. Alan A. Lew (Northern Arizona University, the most common type of publications that

USA), Prof. Norain Othman (Uiversiti Teknologi demonstrates sound theoretical, empirical,
MARA, Malaysia), Prof. Khairil Wahidin Awang and/or methodological underpinnings and
(University Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia), Prof. makes a clear contribution to knowledge in the
M.S.M. Aslam (Sabaragamuwa University of Sri field of Tourism and Hospitality. Secondly,

Lanka), Prof. Wasantha Rathnayake case study and practitioner papers providing
(Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka), critical and concise yet pragmatic views on
Prof. Honggang Xu (Sun Yat-Sen University, contemporary issues specific to Tourism and
China), Dr. Iraj Ratnayake (Sabaragamuwa Hospitality will be published. Finally, there will

University of Sri Lanka), be book reviews.

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