Tea Trails receives international listing

RECOGNITION: Ceylon Tea Trails Resort hotel in Hatton has been included in the "Top 10 Luxury Hotels in the World for Tea Lovers" by Luxurytravelmagazine.com, a leading up-market travel portal.

With this inclusion, Ceylon Tea Trails rubs shoulders with the world's best hotels and resorts such as the Ritz in London, Banyan Tree China, The Peninsula Hong Kong and The Lalu in Taiwan.

This follows in the heels of Tea Trails being included in the Hot List of New Hotels in the world by the world's most prestigious travel magazine, Conde Nast Traveller.

The Hot List has now become the definitive guide for new luxury hotels reaching 3 million of the world's most affluent and well-travelled readers of Conde Nast.

Earlier WOW Traveller, a well known web based travel magazine, ranked Tea Trails first of "Top Ten Places to Pop the Question to Your Partner".

Apart from this Tea Trails has been glowingly featured in international magazines and in many in-flight magazines.

CEO of Forbes and Walker Leisure, the managing company of Ceylon Tea Trails, Dominique Nordmann, states that no other hotel management company in the region can boast of achieving this level of recognition with its first property under management and within one year of opening.

The main reason for the listing of Tea Trails in international magazines is the unique concept of the hotels, location and the colonial architecture, which were created by the family of Merryl J. Fernando of Dilmah Tea.

There are four colonial styled bungalows, (Norwood, Calstlereigh, Tientsin and Summerville) with a total of 20 ultra luxury rooms and suits and some properties have swimming pools, Tennis courts to add more value.

White Water rafting, nature walks, mountain biking, golf tours, trips to Horton Plains, Nuwara Eliya, Adams Peak are organised said Manager Tea Trails, Asela Wavita.

He said that their main clients are British up market tourists while they are also offering special packages for locals.

All accessories, furniture and toilet fittings in the four have been imported and even the meats are being flown from Australia and South Africa.

More information is available on www.teatrails.com

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