CNN Travel selects Santani as one of the Best Wellness Retreats for 2019
View(s):CNN Travel, one of the top travel publishers, has selected 11 wellness retreats across the world as the top retreats to visit in 2019, this time including a Sri Lankan resort – Santani.
In a media release, Vickum Nawagamuwage, CEO and the Founder of Santani stated “Global accolades of this nature are extremely important not just for Santani, but for Sri Lanka as well, as it firmly places the country on the global wellness map, given the importance of this sector.
Following the good press that Sri Lanka has been receiving, recognition of this nature from a global brand like CNN shows that going against the grain and building something truly unique, contemporary and game-changing is creating ripples across the world.”
From the 11 properties selected on this list, only two were in Asia and a number of them were top global brands who have been in the industry for decades. The properties that CNN selected included “TED-style talks to ancient shamanic rituals — designed to help people relax, heal and get inspired”.
Chamindra Goonewardene, Director of Operations at Santani, said: “This was announced just a few months after TIME magazine selected Santani as one of the greatest places in the world. From its inception, Santani has been garnering the right kind of global attention, and we are proud to be promoting the Sri Lanka brand through the press we have been receiving. Given the importance of tourism in the Sri Lanka economy, this kind of attention is crucial in taking Sri Lanka to the next level. From a geographic perspective, both CNN and TIME will assist with boosting North American traffic to Santani and to Sri Lanka. Following the press we have been receiving, we have seen travelers visiting Sri Lanka specifically to visit Santani, and the trickle down benefits that other hotels, operators and suppliers get is a significant bonus for the entire industry.”
Santani Resort and Spa, located in Werapitiya, Sri Lanka is Sri Lanka’s first purpose built luxury wellness resort. Since its inception, it has been recognized by Travel + Leisure, Conde Nast Traveller, Vogue, Forbes, Tatler, TIME and now CNN for a variety of different accolades.