Siddhalepa and Jetwing Lagoon get top awards at ‘Green Hotels Awards’ competition
View(s):Siddhalepa Ayurveda Health Resort (Pvt) Ltd and Jetwing Lagoon won the awards for ‘Best Green Hotel’, respectively representing the Small and the Large hotels category at the ‘Green Hotels Awards 2014,’ organized by the Sri Lanka Hotels Association of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
Under the Small hotels category, Siddhalepa Ayurveda Health Resorts also became the ‘Water Champion’ and ‘Energy Champion’, while Bandarawela Hotel won the award for ‘Waste Champion’, the chamber said..
Winners, Participants and the THASL officials at the Awards Ceremony
Jetwing Lagoon was picked as the ‘Energy Champion’ and ‘Waste Champion”, while Cinnamon Lakeside grabbed the award for ‘Water Champion’.
“The Green Hotels Award 2014” competition drew nearly 40 hotel firms. The competition is a continuation of the Greening Hotel awards scheme initiated by the European Union
The awards ceremony was held recently in Negombo along with the 49th Annual General Meeting of the Hotels Association of Sri Lanka.
Jetwing practises simple philosophy
Jetwing with Bawa masterpiece Jetwing Lagoon picked up three of four awards in the Large Hotels and Boutique Hotels category, along with Jetwing Yala, Jetwing Sea, and Jetwing Vil Uyana receiving other accolades, at the Green awards.
“Sri Lanka’s first resort, Jetwing Lagoon emerged miles ahead of the competition, thanks to a thorough and consistently monitored plan implemented from the beginning of its renovation in 2011. Utilizing the highest standards in technology along with simple practices such as the country’s first vapour absorption chiller (in the hotel sector) powered by steam generated via the biomass boiler for air-conditioning, along with 100 per cent LED lighting and the novel and innovative AgroNova machine – used for enhanced composting, Jetwing Lagoon was given the accolades for Energy Conservation Champion, Waste Conservation Champion, and the crown itself: Best Green Hotel for 2014 in the Large and Boutique Hotels category,” the hotel group said in a media release. In addition, Jetwing Yala – home to the largest privately owned solar park in the country, and currently supplying 40 per cent of the hotel’s electricity demand- was adjudged the Best New Emerging Green Hotel in the Large Hotels and Boutique Hotels category, along with a Certificate of Merit for Energy & Water Conservation and Waste Management under the same category; an achievement shared with Jetwing Sea and Jetwing Vil Uyana.
Speaking about the achievement, Hiran Cooray, Chairman of Jetwing praised the efforts of the engineering team, along with the dedication to consistent practice demonstrated by the associates of Jetwing. “From the day we opened our doors in 1973, we have practised a simple philosophy- we have one Sri Lanka, and only one.
This was long before words such as ‘sustainability’ and ‘environment friendly’ were used, but the principle remains the same. Anything we do has to benefit the communities around us, and to reduce negative impact as much as possible”.