AN INVESTIGATION OF KEY FACTORS FOR NIGHT TIME FUNCTIONS IN COLOMBO: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PUBLIC OPEN SPACES

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.