Jetwing Hotels

Jetwing Hotels is a Sri Lankan hospitality group and hotel brand with a portfolio of hotels and villas across Sri Lanka. Its origins date to the 1970s, when Herbert Cooray acquired the Blue Oceanic Hotel in Negombo from its Swedish owner, Vingressor, and renamed the property Jetwing. The move established the Jetwing name in Sri Lanka's emerging tourism and hotel sector. The company developed as part of a broader family-led travel and hospitality enterprise. In 1981, Herbert Cooray founded Jetwing Travels, extending the group's activities beyond accommodation into travel services. Jetwing Hotels subsequently became associated with a range of properties in different Sri Lankan destinations, including conventional hotels, resort-style properties, and villas. The portfolio reflects Sri Lanka's varied tourism geography, which includes coastal areas, cultural destinations, wildlife regions, and inland landscapes, although the available reference material does not provide a complete current property list. Jetwing's positioning is rooted in locally based hospitality and destination-oriented accommodation. Rather than representing an international hotel chain operating through a large global franchise network, the brand is identified with a Sri Lankan hotel group whose properties serve leisure travelers and visitors exploring the country. The group has also been linked with the development of new hotel assets through Jetwing Symphony, which acts as a holding company for new hotels within the Jetwing Group. Leadership has remained connected to the Cooray family. Hiran Cooray, Herbert Cooray's son, is identified as the current chairman of Jetwing Hotels. The available sources do not establish a precise incorporation year, ownership structure, financial results, stock-market listing, or a definitive present-day count of properties. Accordingly, Jetwing Hotels is best described as an active Sri Lankan hospitality group with a multi-property domestic portfolio and related travel operations.

Jetwing Hotels emerged in Sri Lanka during the country's developing modern tourism industry. In the 1970s, Herbert Cooray acquired the Blue Oceanic Hotel in Negombo from the Swedish company Vingressor and renamed the property Jetwing. This acquisition supplied the brand with its initial hotel identity and connected the Jetwing name with Sri Lankan accommodation and tourism. The business later expanded its scope beyond hotel operations. In 1981, Herbert Cooray established Jetwing Travels, creating a related travel-services business within the broader Jetwing enterprise. The combination of hotels and travel operations allowed the group to participate in both the accommodation and destination-experience sides of tourism, although the available reference material does not specify the full extent of those services or their historical financial performance. Over time, Jetwing Hotels developed a portfolio of hotels and villas in Sri Lanka. The properties are distributed across the country's tourism destinations and include both hotel and villa formats. The reference source identifies Jetwing as a hotel chain but does not provide a complete list of properties, opening dates, brand segmentation, or detailed information about individual facilities. As a result, the group's expansion can be established at a broad level, but not reconstructed property by property from the supplied material. The company's leadership has remained associated with the Cooray family. Hiran Cooray, Herbert Cooray's son, is identified as Jetwing Hotels' current chairman. The wider Jetwing Group also includes Jetwing Symphony, which acts as a holding company for new hotels in the group. This structure indicates an effort to organize the development of additional hotel assets separately from the operating hotel brand, but the available material does not describe the precise legal or financial relationship among Jetwing Hotels, Jetwing Symphony, and other group entities. Jetwing's historical identity is therefore that of a Sri Lankan-founded, locally rooted hospitality group that grew from one Negombo hotel into a broader collection of hotels and villas, supported by related travel operations and ongoing hotel development. No reliable source supplied for this entry establishes a precise founding year, a public listing, a current owner, revenue figures, or a confirmed international operating footprint.

• 1981

  Jetwing Travels founded

  [1]Jetwing Hotelsen.wikipedia.org

  Herbert Cooray founded Jetwing Travels, broadening the group's activities from hotel accommodation into travel services.

• Jetwing name established in Negombo

  [1]Jetwing Hotelsen.wikipedia.org

  During the 1970s, Herbert Cooray acquired the Blue Oceanic Hotel in Negombo from its Swedish owner, Vingressor, and renamed it Jetwing.

• Jetwing Symphony associated with new hotel development

  [1]Jetwing Hotelsen.wikipedia.org

  Jetwing Symphony became the holding company associated with new hotels developed within the Jetwing Group.

Sri Lankan destination hospitality with a portfolio of hotels and villas serving leisure and travel customers across the country.

• Hotels

  Jetwing Hotels

  The core Jetwing offering consists of hotel properties serving visitors in Sri Lanka. The group operates multiple properties rather than a single standardized hotel format, with accommodation located in different tourism destinations. Available reference material confirms the hotel-chain structure but does not provide a complete current property directory or detailed room, dining, and amenity specifications.

• Villas

  Jetwing Villas

  Villas form a second accommodation format within the Jetwing portfolio. They broaden the group's offer beyond conventional hotels and support destination-based stays in Sri Lanka. The supplied sources do not identify all villa properties, their launch dates, or whether they are organized under a separate sub-brand architecture.

• Travel services · 1981

  Jetwing Travels

  Jetwing Travels is a related travel business founded by Herbert Cooray in 1981. Its creation extended the Jetwing enterprise into travel services alongside hotel operations. The available reference material does not provide enough detail to specify its current product range, customer segments, or operating markets separately from the wider group.

• Unconfirmed

  Reported2026.10.30

  Jetwing acquires majority stake in Mermaid Hotel & Club[2]Jetwing 收购 Mermaid Hotel & Club 的多数股权dailymirror.lk

  Jetwing Hotels acquired a majority stake in Kalutara Holiday Resorts (Pvt) Ltd, the owner of Mermaid Hotel & Club, through Saman Villas Ltd, a Jetwing group company. The consideration was undisclosed.

• 2020.06.14

  Jetwing Hotels offers discounts to frontline workers[3]Jetwing Hotels为一线工作人员提供折扣sundaytimes.lk

  Jetwing Hotels announced an exclusive offer with discounts of up to 60% for frontline workers, including police officers, medical personnel and armed forces.

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1. 1Jetwing Hotelsen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Jetwing 收购 Mermaid Hotel & Club 的多数股权dailymirror.lk
3. 3Jetwing Hotels为一线工作人员提供折扣sundaytimes.lk