New travel website offers budget accommodation
Planning for the long weekend? Maybe to take the family out on a brief budget-holiday taking a break from stress-ridden office routine? Or maybe the boss asked you to book a place for a corporate training session. You need not fret any more. Just key in nawatan.com and hey presto! Nawatan.com is aiming at the middle and upper-middle class market of local and international travellers who seek ‘clean and comfy’ accommodation such as homestays, bungalows, boutique hotels, villas and short-term-rental apartments.
There are more than 2000 rooms registered with nawatan.com offering the short–stay traveller ‘clean and cosy’ accommodation at budget rates in more than 50 cities and adventure spots on our paradise island. It is already the largest accommodation booking platform in Sri Lanka focused specifically on local supplementary accommodation.
Nawatan.com is run by Incubate Labs (Pvt) Ltd Sri Lanka (www.incubatelabs.com) founded by Punsri Abeywickrema, a Silicon Valley web technologies entrepreneur who returned to Sri Lanka recently after working at some of the biggest tech companies in the world – Oracle, PayPal /eBay, Linked-In, Zynga and his own start-up company Rentalic. The latter bagged one of the most prestigious innovation awards in Silicon Valley – The PayPal Developer Challenge. With Punsri’s expertise behind it, this innovative project has plans to go places.