Sri Lanka’s Jetwing Hotels plots massive expansion by 2016
Feizal Samath, Colombo, August 5, 2015
Sri Lankan hospitality chain Jetwing Hotels is embarking on a rapid expansion drive, opening five new hotels and enhancing three existing properties in the country to boost an inventory of close to 1,000 rooms by 2016.
“We are driving the Jetwing brand to be synonymous with Sri Lankan hospitality,” Shiromal Cooray, managing director of Jetwing Hotels told TTG Asia e-Daily.
In September 2015, the company will launch two new properties – the 55-room Jetwing Yarl in the northern city of Jaffna, and the 25-room Jetwing Kaduruketha in the south-central town of Wellawaya.
New hotels coming online by August 2016 include Jetwing Colombo, an upscale hotel in the Sri Lankan capital featuring 70 rooms and 30 serviced apartments; the 94-room Jetwing Lake in central Dambulla; and the 20-villa Jetwing Arugam Bay in Pottuvil, on the country’s east coast.
For enhancement plans, six new thatched pavilions will be built in Jetwing Vil Uyana in Sigiriya while the Jetwing Kurulubedda hotel in southern Galle will see the addition of four new pool villas. Twenty-four rooms will also be added to the Jetwing Ayurveda Pavilions, a luxury wellness resort in the western beach resort of Negombo.
