Jetwing Hotels

Jetwing Hotels Limited
Company typePrivate
IndustryHospitality
Founded1970; 54 years ago (1970)
Negombo, Sri Lanka
FounderHerbert Cooray
Headquarters
Colombo
,
Sri Lanka
Number of locations
30+ (2020)[1]
Area served
Sri Lanka
Key people
  • Shiromal Cooray (Chairperson)
  • Hiran Cooray (Executive Director)
  • Ruan Samarasinghe (MD)
ProductsHotels, resorts
ParentJetwing Hotels Management Services (Private) Limited
Websitejetwinghotels.com

Jetwing Hotels Limited is a Sri Lankan hotel chain. Jetwing was founded in the 1970s by Herbert Cooray when he purchased the Blue Oceanic Hotel in Negombo from its Swedish owner Vingressor and renamed it Jetwing.[2] Cooray founded Jetwing Travels in 1981.[3] Jetwing Hotels' current chairman, Hiran Cooray, is the son of Herbert Cooray.[4] Jetwing Symphony acts as the holding company for the new hotel of the Jetwing Group.[5]

  1. ^ "Jetwing Hotels Annual Report 2019" (PDF). Colombo Stock Exchange. Jetwing Hotels. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Jetwing hotels is the story of Herbert Cooray, one of Sri Lanka's pioneers in tourism". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 3 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Tourism industry honours veterans". Sunday Observer. 27 July 2003. Archived from the original on 14 April 2008. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  4. ^ Wright, Martin (9 January 2014). "Sustainability at a Sri Lankan hotel". The Guardian.
  5. ^ "Sri Lanka's Jetwing Symphony posts profits for first time in March". Economy Next. Echelon Media (Pvt) Ltd. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2022.