Jetwing Jaffna

Jetwing Jaffna
Jetwing Jaffna is located in Central Jaffna
Jetwing Jaffna
Location in central Jaffna
Alternative namesJetwing Yarl
General information
AddressMahatma Gandhi Road
Town or cityJaffna
CountrySri Lanka
Coordinates9°39′53.70″N 80°0′49.10″E / 9.6649167°N 80.0136389°E / 9.6649167; 80.0136389
Construction startedFebruary 2012
OpenedApril 2016
OwnerYarl Hotels (Private) Limited
Technical details
Floor count7
Other information
Number of rooms55
Website
jetwinghotels.com

Jetwing Jaffna (Jetwing Yarl) is a hotel in the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The seven-storey 55 room star class hotel is located in the heart of the city on Mahatma Gandhi Road (former Clock Tower Road), next to Cargills Square.[1][2][3] The hotel was built on land purchased in 1975 by N. U. Jayawardena, former governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon.[4][5] Originally intended to be a fourteen-storey 76 room hotel, construction began in February 2012.[6][7] Owned by Yarl Hotels, a joint venture between Jetwing Hotels and MMBL Group (Mercantile Merchant Banking Limited), the Rs. 1 billion hotel opened in April 2016.[8][9]

References

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  1. ^ "President declares open Jetwing Jaffna hotel". news.lk. 4 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Jetwing Yarl to change Jaffna skyline". Asian Tribune. 5 February 2012.
  3. ^ Coombe, Juliet (8 January 2016). "Jaffna's Punkudutivu Paradise". Daily News (Sri Lanka).
  4. ^ "President declares open Jetwing Jaffna hotel". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 4 April 2016. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  5. ^ "President Sirisena declares open 'Jetwing Jaffna'". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 4 April 2016.
  6. ^ "'Development means 14-storey tourist hotel in Jaffna'". TamilNet. 4 February 2012.
  7. ^ "Jaffna gets 14 storey star-class hotel". The Island (Sri Lanka). 6 February 2012.
  8. ^ Kotelawala, Himal (13 November 2015). "Jetwing Jaffna to jump-start northern economy". Daily FT.
  9. ^ "Rs 1 bn 'Jetwing Jaffna' opens". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 5 April 2016.