Abstract:
Night functions are vibrant of 24 hours, and key income fact in a lot of countries
around the globe. Many Asian towns and cities are also becoming fond of this night
time entertainment as it can be considered the main income generator. Ex: Bangkok,
Hong Kong, Tokyo However in Sri Lanka night time entertainment is not in its full
form as many parties bear differential opinions with that. Night functions can divide
into entertainment sector and industrial sector. Here, it only considers entertainment
sector. Although past few decades several institutions were started some sort of
night functioning projects targeting tourists, not implemented well because of lack
people participations and none of the researches have been provided to fulfill that
gap because of this research attempts to identify important factors and investigate
present condition of night functions in Colombo. Generally, public open spaces are
the places where night functions are occurring as considerable level. This research
was provided the basis of the reasons why Colombo people couldn’t clutch night
functioning. As identified through the literature, safety, variety of activities,
infrastructure provision, the brand of products, cultural initiatives, planning and
policy framework etc. provide strong night time entertainment and it exploring the
role of these factors in Colombo night functioning on people and institutional
perspectives. Thus this research attempts to argue about the gap between both
perspectives. Research methodology basically comprised with background survey,
literature review, data collection comprehensively discussed under two phases
combined with Colombo community gathering public open spaces case study
analysis and implementing issues relate to finding factors in responsive authorities
through semi-structured interviews. As outcomes each of the two phases identified,
no significant different among selected factors according to people requirements
and all are important for night functioning. However, according to the present
condition, there are significant differences competing with people requirements and
existing situation. Thus the responsive authorities also having issues with the
implementation. Once, it will fill the gap between people requirement and percent
level of factors by the responsive authorities Colombo will success with night
functioning.
