Challenges in Sri Lankan Heritage Management with the Covid 19 Pandemic

Abstract

Heritage Management is a field which has been developed to conserve, preserve and manage the cultural heritage of any country for promoting it to the visitors. Heritage management also incurred with marketing, visitor management and community empowerment. Due to the Covid 19 Pandemic, this respected field has been very much impacted and forced to face an economic downfall. This research has attempted to identify the major problems faced by heritage managers in the safety of the staff, visitor management, and maintaining heritage. The recommendations are made in three challenging fields and, also sustainable best practices are suggested at the end for the long run in a pandemic Covid 19. The study is primarily based on mix method while using both primary and secondary data such as library material, journals and reports, media publications and various internet search engines. Convenient sampling has been used to select the sample for the questionnaire survey. As per the empirical studies, it was revealed that proper usage of guidelines and good practices for the management of the heritages incorporating the high technology in a sustainable manner may support to be endured during the pandemic.