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Taj Samudra. Taj Samudra, trading as TAL Lanka Hotels PLC, is a five-star luxury hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The hotel is a listed company on the Colombo Stock Exchange since 1982 and the majority of the shares are held by Taj Hotels. The hotel is located right opposite Galle Face Green facing the Indian Ocean.
The hotel is located adjacent to the Galle Face Green and next to Shangri-La Colombo and Taj Samudra hotels. It is ITC Hotels' first foreign investment. The hotel is 140 metres (460 ft) tall and accompanied by a 224 metres (735 ft) tall Sapphire Residences building. The two buildings are connected by Ahasa One, a 55 metres (180 ft) sky bridge.
Parent. Indian Hotels Company Limited. Website. www.tajhotels.com. Taj Hotels is a chain of luxury hotels and a subsidiary of the Indian Hotels Company Limited, [1] headquartered in Mumbai, India. Incorporated by Jamsetji Tata in 1902, [2] the company is a part of the Tata Group. The company employed over 20,000 people in the year 2010. [3][4]
The Tea Factory Hotel is the country's first theme hotel. The hotel was rebranded as Heritance Tea Factory on 15 December 2009. It was the fourth hotel to be launched under the Heritance brand. Heritance Kandalama, Heritance Ahungalla and Heritance Madurai were the other three. [6] The hotel is located at an elevation of about 2,000 metres ...
The first hotel of the company was opened — The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Colaba neighbourhood of Bombay opened in 1903. [9] It was the first five star hotel in India with modern elevators and Russian carpets. [10] In 1980 the Taj Group opened their first international hotels: the Taj Sheba Hotel in Sana'a, Yemen and the Taj Pamodzi in Lusaka ...
The Colombo Club Building, now known as the Grand Crystal Ballroom at the Taj Samudra Hotel, is one of the oldest buildings in Colombo. Dating back to the British colonial era it was built in the early 1860s as the grandstand for the Colpetty Race Course by Assembly Rooms Company Limited. [1] In 1871 it was leased by the Colombo Club as its ...
After the country declared independence from Great Britain in 1948, Tamil laborers originally recruited by the British from India to work on tea plantations were declared stateless. Their applications for citizenship were too numerous to be processed at the Kachcheri , so the Government took over sixteen rooms in the bedroom wing as a second ...
Queen's Hotel. The Queen's Hotel is an 80-room British Colonial style three star hotel, located at central hill capital Kandy in Sri Lanka. Located in the center of the city at end of the main street, this former Governor's residence is one of the oldest hotels in Sri Lanka with a history of over 160 years. It is currently managed by the Ceylon ...