A super luxury ‘country eco-hotel’ is currently being constructed in Dambulla area by Italy-based El Greco Hotel chain, targeting to exploit the maximum from the
expected tourism boom in Sri Lanka, providing an unmatched luxury standards Sri Lanka has never seen before.The hotel is named Agro Eco Green Paradise and it is being developed nearby the South Asia’s biggest rose quartz mountain, Namal Uyana. According to sources, the hotel is expected to be opened for tourists from March 2011.
The Bottom Line was also told that officials from El Greco Hotels have conducted a presentation about the property at the recently concluded World Travel Market in London.
The Green Paradise is expected to come up with facilities and services such as restaurants, villas, swimming pool with bar, gym, spa centre with sauna, sport area to practise cricket, tennis and soccer and a wonderful lake with boats.
According to sources at BoI, the initial investment value of the Green Paradise is around Rs.500million to Rs.1billion. The hotel has 70 rooms and 95 per cent of it would be made out of wood.
The company is believed to be having plans to make this a chain of hotels by constructing a second Agro resort in Marawila.
Currently, there are several star class hotels in Dambulla area including Aitken Spence owned Kandalama Heritance and Amaya Hotel chain’s Amaya Lake Resort.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.