Thailand-based ONYX Hospitality Group recently marked a key development in the expansion of its Amari brand with a ‘ground breaking’ ceremony to mark the start of construction of the third ONYX project in Sri Lanka; Amari Galle. The hospitality group’s hotel brand OZO has already made a footprint in Sri Lanka’s hospitality landscape with OZO Colombo, which opened in June 2014 and OZO Kandy, which is due to open in April this year.
Owned by Sino Lanka Hotels Galle (PVT) LTD., and headed by Bob Kundanmal, Amari Galle will be managed by ONYX Hospitality Group under its full-service Amari brand. The 172 room hotel is located on Galle Road, approximately 2.5km north of the Galle Fort. The hotel’s facilities will include a swimming pool, gym, Breeze Spa, banqueting facilities and two restaurants.
An artist’s rendering shows the 172-room Amari Galle hotel, set for opening at the end of 2016.
Amari is the centrepiece of the ONYX portfolio of hospitality brands with the hotel chain stretching across Thailand and beyond. There are a further eight Amari projects in the pipeline in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Maldives.
