Heritance the hallmark of Aitken Spence Hotels

by Leon Wickremesinghe

The Rebranded Heritance Hallmark for all Aitken Spence Hotels numbering 17 islandwide was launched at a media briefing on Wednesday.

The significance of Aitken Spence, the Company was very ably highlighted to the distinguished gathering at the Aitken Spence Roof Top Tower by Rajan Britto, Deputy chairman, Aitken Spence.

A once empirical days trading house founder over 140 years ago in 1868 which had as its mainline shipping, plantations and insurance from the 1970's branched aggressively into tourism that has yielded good growth.

Another paradigm shift was in the 1990's to power infrastructure. Britto made mention of excellence, being trustworthy while increasing value to their shareholders and stakeholders with the well intentioned corporate social responsibility, being morally alive and mindful of the heartfelt needs and desires, the hopes and aspirations of the fellow citizen are the standards of Aitken Spence to which high value and adherence of same is placed.

The parent company too would be rebranded- that is something in the pipeline. Heritance living the brand the honour and the legacy shall be maintained with their one of a kind Kandalama Tea factory, Triton where the fusion with environment coupled with excellent tasteful architecture has been unique and tasteful to not just the discerning frequent visitor, but to all.

Being articulate giving pride of place to members of the staff from designing uniforms and imparting value of living the brand through cleanliness of the premises down to exacting details of excellence in all areas of service to the paying quest is part of the management staff ethic at Aitken Spence Heritance Hotels, Britto said.

The group Director of Aitken Spence Hotels Malin Hapugoda counts over 30 years in the hoteleering and leisure industry. Naturally the Aitken Spence group is proud of its hotels and also the other hotels in the Maldives it holds with others in partnership.

The next target is to build a heritance hotel in Colombo, Britto added. Responding to a question raised Britto said 65 percent to 70 percent profit comes in the form of income generated from tourism and the hotel trade.