监狱旅馆给游客全新体验_报刊文摘
colombo (reuters) - want a tourism experience with a difference? sri lanka is converting a historic prison into a hotel so that visitors can enjoy the holiday of their lives -- presumably with time off for good behavior.
the daily news reported thursday that galle prison -- built in a centuries-old fort that is now a united nations world heritage site -- would be developed into a tourist site.
quoting southern province governor kingsley t. wickremaratne, the state-owned paper said guests would have to abandon their holiday finery on check-in and would be issued with prison uniforms for the duration of their stay.
"unlike the star class hotels, there won’t be luxury rooms fitted with hot water taps ... the rooms are none other than the prison cells fitted with iron bars," the governor said.
but the news said a "jailor" would allow guests to keep the keys to their cells and they could move about at will.
galle fort dates back to 1663 during the dutch settler era and contains some of the finest examples of colonial architecture in the region.
property in galle fort is among the most expensive in sri lanka, and a number of grand old buildings -- which used to house the colonial dutch and later british administrations, have already been converted into luxury hotels or museums.
a sri lankan company converted an old tea factory in the hill district of nuwara eliya into a hotel some years ago in its bid to offer tourism with a difference.
辅助阅读：
想来一次与众不同的全新旅游体验吗？斯里兰卡正在筹划将监狱与旅馆融于一体，修建一座具有历史意义的监狱旅馆。据《每日新闻》报道，建于一个有几百年的堡垒（该堡垒已被列为联合国世界遗产）之中的加勒监狱将被开发为一个旅游景点。与星级旅馆不同，该旅馆没有配有热水的豪华房间，相反，有的只是装着铁条的牢房。但所谓的“监狱看守人”允许游客自己保管钥匙，游客可自由活动。
the daily news reported thursday that galle prison -- built in a centuries-old fort that is now a united nations world heritage site -- would be developed into a tourist site.
quoting southern province governor kingsley t. wickremaratne, the state-owned paper said guests would have to abandon their holiday finery on check-in and would be issued with prison uniforms for the duration of their stay.
"unlike the star class hotels, there won’t be luxury rooms fitted with hot water taps ... the rooms are none other than the prison cells fitted with iron bars," the governor said.
but the news said a "jailor" would allow guests to keep the keys to their cells and they could move about at will.
galle fort dates back to 1663 during the dutch settler era and contains some of the finest examples of colonial architecture in the region.
property in galle fort is among the most expensive in sri lanka, and a number of grand old buildings -- which used to house the colonial dutch and later british administrations, have already been converted into luxury hotels or museums.
a sri lankan company converted an old tea factory in the hill district of nuwara eliya into a hotel some years ago in its bid to offer tourism with a difference.
辅助阅读：
想来一次与众不同的全新旅游体验吗？斯里兰卡正在筹划将监狱与旅馆融于一体，修建一座具有历史意义的监狱旅馆。据《每日新闻》报道，建于一个有几百年的堡垒（该堡垒已被列为联合国世界遗产）之中的加勒监狱将被开发为一个旅游景点。与星级旅馆不同，该旅馆没有配有热水的豪华房间，相反，有的只是装着铁条的牢房。但所谓的“监狱看守人”允许游客自己保管钥匙，游客可自由活动。