Luxury insider, luxury online magazine announced that the Six Senses spa at Heritance Kandalama has been named one of the top-5 sustainable spas in Asia.
“We have been dedicated and enthusiastic towards sustaining and further developing the environmental programmes implemented by us and we are delighted to be recognised for our efforts” said B H R Sariffo’deen, Assistant Vice President, Aitken Spence Hotel Management.
The Six Senses spa situated on a rock overlooking the world famous Sigiriya Rock Fortress belongs to a chain of twenty-four spas.
The hotel has a comprehensive energy conservation policy with power cut-off switches, energy efficient lighting (CFL bulbs), photo active garden lights and a gasification plant, which uses biomass in the form of Gliricidia wood which is a renewable source compared with the previous boiler, which used diesel, a rapidly depleting fossil fuel. The hotel also has a comprehensive water conservation policy where no surface water is utilised. Water is obtained from 150-200 foot deep tube wells and a maze of gutters that collect rainwater.
