OZO Hotel launched in Kandy
Sino Lanka Hotels Holdings (Pvt) Limited, Kandy Hotels Co. (1938)
PLC, together with ONYX Hospitality Group, launched OZO Kandy, the
second OZO property to be built in Sri Lanka.
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From left: Executive Vice President and Chief Development
Officer, ONYX Hospitality
Group, Simon Allison, Mayor of Kandy Mahendra Ratwatte, Chairman
of the Kandy
Hotels Co. (1938) Plc., Sanjeev Gardiner, Chief Minister of the
Central Province Sarath
Ekanayake, Minister for Economic Development and Tourism,
Minister for Economic
Development and Tourism Basil Rajapaksa, Chairman, Sino Lanka
Hotels Holdings,
Bob Kundanmal, Director, Sino Lanka Hotels, Manu Bhojwani,
Director, Sino Lanka
Hotels Stefan Furkhan and Chairman, Sri Lanka Hotels Corporation
Lakshman Samarasinghe. |
The project is a joint venture between Sino Lanka Hotels headed by
Bob Kundanmal and Kandy Hotels Co., the owning company of the Queen's
Hotel and Hotel Suisse, headed by Sanjeev Gardiner.
ONYX, a Thailand-based hospitality company which operates four hotel
brands in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, will manage the new hotel
under its OZO brand.
"We are very positive about tourism in Sri Lanka and moving forward
to build six hotels. We are pleased to partner ONYX on our three star
properties," said Chairman of Sino Lanka Hotels Bob Kundanmal.
"Sri Lanka's tourism industry is growing rapidly and we are intent on
becoming a part of the booming opportunities ahead through new
partnerships and projects such as the OZO brand expansion in Sri Lanka,"
said Chairman, Kandy Hotels Co., Sanjeev Gardiner.
The 128-room OZO Kandy will be located adjacent to the Hotel Suisse
at Sangaraja Mawatha off the Kandy Lake. The hotel's recreational
facilities will include a swimming pool, gym, two restaurants and OZO's
innovative grab and go, food on the run concept, O2Go. Construction work
on OZO Colombo, on the Marine Drive in Colombo 4, is progressing and the
company is awaiting approval to commence a third project in Galle. |
