The second hotel project of Siddhalepa Group, the Siddhalepa Anarva in Mount Lavinia built with an investment of Rs. 1.8 billion was opened to guests last week.

It consists of seven floors with 98 rooms plus the spa which will be open for in-house as well outside guests.

The spa consists of six rooms with a herbal room, steam room, dedicated to different Ayurvedic treatments. In addition to that it also has a roof-top swimming pool facing the Mount Lavinia beach.

“The purpose to open this was to improve medical tourism in Sri Lanka, extending our strength in line with the country’s objective to be a medical tourism hub,” Siddhalepa Ayurveda Resorts and Spas Senior Marketing Manager Ushan Edirisinghe told Mirror Business.

He said that their target market will be medium and up market in order to attract more revenue to the country.

“When it comes to medical tourism a lot of budget people come to Sri Lanka. We are not targeting the budget people, it won’t give much revenue to the country, we are targeting medium and up market people,” he said.

This hotel comes after 18 years of their first hotel, which is Wadduwa health resort built in 1999. How Anarva differs from its first project according to him is the first hotel is completely dedicated to Ayurvedic treatment where people have to reside their for 7-21 days for treatments, whereas the new hotel would cater to people who come to the city for different purposes and they can get their treatments while being in the city.