Jetwing Jaffna Explained

Jetwing Jaffna
Alternate Names:	Jetwing Yarl
Map Type:	Sri Lanka Jaffna Central
Owner:	Yarl Hotels (Private) Limited
Address:	Mahatma Gandhi Road
Location Town:	Jaffna
Location Country:	Sri Lanka
Coordinates:	9.6649°N 80.0136°W
Start Date:	February 2012
Opened Date:	April 2016
Floor Count:	7
Rooms:	55

Jetwing Jaffna (Jetwing Yarl) is a hotel in the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The seven-storey 55 room star class hotel is located in the heart of the city on Mahatma Gandhi Road (former Clock Tower Road), next to Cargills Square.^{[1] [2] [3]} The hotel was built on land purchased in 1975 by N. U. Jayawardena, former governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon.^{[4] [5]} Originally intended to be a fourteen-storey 76 room hotel, construction began in February 2012.^{[6] [7]} Owned by Yarl Hotels, a joint venture between Jetwing Hotels and MMBL Group (Mercantile Merchant Banking Limited), the Rs. 1 billion hotel opened in April 2016.^{[8] [9]}

Notes and References

1. News: President declares open Jetwing Jaffna hotel. news.lk. 4 April 2016.
2. News: Jetwing Yarl to change Jaffna skyline. Asian Tribune. 5 February 2012.
3. News: Coombe. Juliet. Jaffna’s Punkudutivu Paradise. Daily News (Sri Lanka). 8 January 2016.
4. News: President declares open Jetwing Jaffna hotel. The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 4 April 2016. 17 April 2016. 5 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160505155343/http://www.sundaytimes.lk/99853/president-declares-open-jetwing-jaffna-hotel. dead.
5. News: President Sirisena declares open ‘Jetwing Jaffna’. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 4 April 2016.
6. News: ‘Development means 14-storey tourist hotel in Jaffna’. TamilNet. 4 February 2012.
7. News: Jaffna gets 14 storey star-class hotel. The Island (Sri Lanka). 6 February 2012.
8. News: Kotelawala. Himal. Jetwing Jaffna to jump-start northern economy. Daily FT. 13 November 2015.
9. News: Rs 1 bn 'Jetwing Jaffna' opens. Daily News (Sri Lanka). 5 April 2016.