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The museum and art gallery at the Galle Face Hotel. The Galle Face Hotel has Four restaurants, three bars and a pub. They are the 1864: Limited Edition fine dining restaurant (dinner only), King of the Mambo, a Cuban themed restaurant; Firebeach - a lounge bar and restaurant with a wood fired oven; a buffet restaurant known as The Verandah, Travellers' Bar, the Pool Bar, Chequerboard, and an ...
Ceylon tea has been described as not only a geographical descriptor but also a pillar of Sri Lankan culture, heritage, and identity. [1] The Sri Lanka Tea Board is the legal proprietor of the Lion Logo of Ceylon tea. In 2019, Sri Lanka was the fourth largest tea producer and the third largest tea exporter in the world. [2]
Tea production is one of the main sources of foreign exchange for Sri Lanka, and accounts for 2% of GDP, contributing over US$1.3 billion in 2021 to the economy of Sri Lanka. [1] It employs, directly or indirectly, over 1 million people, and in 1995 directly employed 215,338 on tea plantations and estates.
The Tea Factory Hotel commenced operations in the same year. [4] The hotel won the merit award at the UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards in 2001. [5] 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.
The groundbreaking ceremony of ITC Colombo One took place on 19 November 2014 with the attendance of the minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa, and the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Y. K. Sinha. [2] ITC Hotels invested US$300 million to the project. The hotel is located adjacent to the Galle Face Green.
The entrance of the hotel. The hotel was declared open on 9 January 2017 by President Maithripala Sirisena.It is the first five-star hotel in Colombo in 25 years. [2] The hotel has won the "Sri Lanka's Leading Hotel" award and the "Sri Lanka's Leading Hotel Suite" award at the World Travel Awards in 2017, 2018, and 2019. [3]
As of 2022, Ceylon Hotels holds a 69.54% stake in the Kandy Hotels Company. The Kandy Hotels Company is the owner and operator of the Queen's Hotel and the Hotel Suisse. [1] Kandy Hotels Company entered into an agreement with Sino Lanka Hotel Holdings to set up a joint venture to build OZO Kandy in 2012. OZO Kandy was planned to have 120 rooms. [8]
Galle Face Green originally extended over a much larger area than exists today. Records indicate that it was bounded to the north by Beira Lake, the ramparts of Colombo Fort and the city's cemetery (established in 1803), to the west by the Indian Ocean, whilst to the south by the Galle Face Hotel (established in 1864, although the original building on the site was a Dutch villa) and to the ...