CINNAMON LODGE Competitors

Recognized as World's Strongest Luxury Hotel Brand 2026 and India’s Strongest Brand 2026 as per Brand Finance UK, Taj is the iconic flagship brand of the Indian Hotels Company renowned for its blend of luxury and heritage. Incorporated by the founder of the Tata Group, Jamsetji Tata, Taj opened its first hotel - The Taj Mahal Palace, in Bombay in 1903. Today, with over 150 hotels across the globe including presence in India, North America, United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal, Taj offers a diverse portfolio including grand palaces, city hotels, beach & spa resorts, wildlife safaris, and serviced residences.

Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts is a diverse chain of Hotels both in Sri Lanka and Maldives. It is a member of John Keells Holdings PLC which is the largest listed conglomerate in Sri Lanka with interest in sectors such as Leisure, Transportation, Property, Consumer Food & Retail, Financial services, Information Technology, Business Process Operations and Plantations. This leading Hotel chain has been named after the spice synonymous with Sri Lanka and was launched at World Travel Market in London on the 14th of November 2005. It represents an experience which, in its own way, is as exotic, exciting and enticing a voyage of discovery as the perilous journeys once undertaken by the adventurers of yore. The Cinnamon brand represents a chain of modern hotels vibrant in colour, inspiring in hospitality, and committed to going the extra mile to satisfy customer needs. Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts guarantees legendary Sri Lankan hospitality through comfort, creativity and discovery and inspired living. Each hotel has a unique character of its own derived from influence of background, locality, culture and traditions. From Jungle cabanas to city luxury, water villas in Maldives to Beach chalets in Sri Lanka, each resort will take you on a journey and discovery. The chain has a total of fourteen Hotels; three City properties in Colombo, eight Resort properties around Sri Lanka and four Resort properties in the Maldives. Experience the true meaning of inspired living with Cinnamon!

It was another day on the Negombo beach in the early 1970s; he was Herbert Cooray – a visionary, a pioneer of tourism in Sri Lanka and the founding father of Jetwing. The homely property he built and named Blue Oceanic of just six rooms may have been small, but the heartfelt warmth it offered was immense. It all began with a humble desire to share the experience of true hospitality of a Sri Lankan family with others. A simple dream which grew to an ever furthering vision that made us – the company he founded, what we are today – one of the largest, most respected, and recognized tourism organisations in Sri Lanka, and a family of hotels like no other.