First Six Senses property opens in 2012

Six Senses Resorts & Spas, together with the Favourite Group and its associates has signed an agreement with Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings PLC, to establish the first Six Senses property in Sri Lanka. The project is approved by the BOI as a 50:50 joint venture, worth around US$ 35-40 million.

The project will comprise a Six Senses resort, a spa and beach front residential villas on a 10.5-acre land both adjoining Heritance Ahungalla on the Southern coast on a 27-acre island. The resort is schedulled to be open in 2012. Six Senses expects the revenue per room to be in the range of US$ 400-450.

Chairman and CEO of Six Senses Resorts & Spas, Sonu Shivdasani said, "I am absolutely delighted to open a Six Senses resort in Sri Lanka, a wonderful country which Six Senses has been interested in for some time.

To be working with Aitken Spence on such a project and in a beautiful location in Sri Lanka is doubly exciting. Aitken Spence shares the core values which Six Senses is based on, a commitment to support the environment and local communities, while developing a successful luxury resort.

Six Senses currently operates 13 high-end resorts branded as Soneva, Six Senses and Evason in the Maldives, Thailand, Vietnam, Oman and Jordan.

There are also several new developments underway in locations such as Morocco, Turks and Caicos and China. The Six Senses Spa division has twenty-seven company-operated spas, with new spa developments underway in several locations, including India, Morocco and Oman. The group recently launched the Six Senses Destination Spa brand.