The work of ICRT Sri Lanka has spanned energy reduction, community engagement, nature protection and local sourcing and employment. Examples include:

The Greening Sri Lanka Hotels Framework is a project to reduce the hospitality industry’s demand for energy. The sector uses 4% of the national electricity demand, which accounts for approximately two weeks of national demand. Half of this energy requirement is for air conditioning, out of which 20% could be easily reduced, creating substantial cost savings for the hotels. The Greening Sri Lanka Hotels framework was a direct cooperation among the Ministry of Tourism, Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority, Responsible Tourism Partnership and the Tourist Hotels Association of Sri Lanka. These agencies, in a collaborative effort, worked to implement a national hotel sector energy, water and waste management programme, encouraging other best practices such as renewable energy technologies.

Learning Involving and Nurturing Community to minimise harassment to tourists LINC was created to bridge between the local community and tourists, changing the conceptions (or misconceptions) of both in relation to the other and to give the local beach community an opportunity to make a living by providing goods and services to tourists in a way that both tourists and the local community will be happy with the interaction from the first meeting to the conclusion. 

The Trees for Life conservation project had local community livelihood and children education in biodiversity linked objectives in addition to reforesting a valuable Hiyare Rian Forest and providing food trees for local communities affected by the tsunami. Hundreds of thousands of school children underwent education and awareness through indigenous tree planting to reforest and also panting food, medicinal or trees economic value like Ceylon Cinnamon in forest buffer zone villages. 

Dikwella Lace & Crafts Centre The poorest women from Dickwella coastal villages improved their skills as bobbin lace makers. A new centre replaced the tsunami-devastated lace centres offering training to the younger generation of women to learn the age-old craft of exquisite handmade lace. The Dickwella Lace Centre was set up to help revive traditional lace-making, support local craftswomen and create new livelihood opportunities.

Responsible Tourism Guide for Tourists The key objective of the booklet is to create awareness and educate travellers on responsible behaviour while visiting Sri Lanka, a powerful tool in influencing to drive change towards responsible tourism in the destination.