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Jetwing Hotels Limited
Company typePrivate
Industry
  • Hotels
Founded1970s
FounderHerbert Cooray
Headquarters,
Area served
Sri Lanka
Key people
  • Hiran Cooray (Chairman)
  • Ruan Samarasinghe (MD)
ParentJetwing Hotels Management Services (Private) Limited
Websitejetwinghotels.com

Jetwing Hotels Limited is a Sri Lankan hotel chain. Jetwing was founded in the 1970s by Herbert Cooray when he purchased the Blue Oceanic Hotel in Negombo from its Swedish owner Vingressor and renamed it Jetwing.[1] Cooray founded Jetwing Travels in 1981.[2] Jetwing Hotels' current chairman, Hiran Cooray, is the son of Herbert Cooray.[3]

Properties

Jetwing Hotels operates several hotels and villas across Sri Lanka:

Hotels[4]
Villas[5]
  • Era Beach by Jetwing, Galle
  • Dedduwa Boat House, Bentota
  • Galle Heritage Villa by Jetwing, Galle
  • Jetwing Kurulubedda, Galle
  • Jetwing Thalahena Villas, Negombo
  • Jetwing Warwick Gardens, Nuwara Eliya
  • Kottukal Beach House by Jetwing, Pottuvil
  • Saffron and Blue, Kosgoda
  • The Cottage by Jetwing, Nuwara Eliya
  • Yathra by Jetwing, Bentota
Hotels under construction
  • Jetwing Kandy Gallery, Kandy

References

  1. ^ "Jetwing hotels is the story of Herbert Cooray, one of Sri Lanka's pioneers in tourism". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 3 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Tourism industry honours veterans". Sunday Observer. 27 July 2003.
  3. ^ Wright, Martin (9 January 2014). "Sustainability at a Sri Lankan hotel". The Guardian.
  4. ^ "Hotels". Jetwing Hotels.
  5. ^ "Villas". Jetwing Hotels.