Calamander had bought Unawatuna Beach Resort just off Galle in Southern Sri Lanka for around one billion rupees in 2011 and rebuilt it by investing another 350 million rupees.
Sri Lanka has seen a surge in hotel investmetns after a 30-year war ended in 2009 and tourist arrivals started to pick up.
The 30-year old hotel has since been re-named Calamnader Unawatuna Beach Resort.
“The new Calamander Unawatuna Beach maintains a key role in promoting and developing Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, and reaching the 2016 target of 2 million arrivals,” Calamander chairman Roman Scott said in a statement.
“For more than forty years, Unawatuna beach and UBR have been hugely popular with the North European market, in particular Germany.
“The hotel hosts an extraordinary one in ten of all German visitors to Sri Lanka, who proceed to spend over one billion rupees during their two week average stay on the island.”
Holland, the UK, and Scandinavia tourists are the hotels’ next largest customer base.”
Calamander said it had rebuilt the original set of buildings and restaurant, with contemporary design with more natural light and upgraded entertainment fixture and furnishings.
Scott said the hotel had a large number of repeat customers going back over 10 years.
“These customers demand higher standards today and no longer just want a nice beach with a mediocre room,” Scott said.
“Thailand has raised the competitive standards for mid priced hotels in the last decade, and we have set out to lift UBR to match or beat them, and keep our German and other traditional North European markets with us in Sri Lanka…”
He said the hotel is priced in the 100 to 150 US dollar range. It has 55 Delux rooms of 25 square meters, 8 Super-delux rooms of 30 square meters 22 luxury rooms of 45 square meters each.
Singapore"s Calamander invests US$10mn in Sri Lanka hotel
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