Vil Uyana is the first hotel in Sri Lanka to construct a wetland system with lakes and reed beds to form a private nature reserve. The design of Vil Uyana is inspired from the local and rural traditions.
The many components of the ecosystems will be subject to continuous monitoring by the research facility, which will include a team of naturalists and horticulturists. The hotel is unique in building a research facility from the inception. This includes accommodation for researchers locally and internationally, overcoming one of the key logistic hurdles to field work.
The hotel conducts training workshops on “customer care” and “English language” for local village persons and successful participants are offered employment on a contract basis.
This tour would yield revenue for small local safari jeep operators and their team of drivers. You would also get an opportunity to visit a local school, most of its students are poor and responsible tourists generally donate books, pen, pencils and uniforms to some of these students.
We have a policy of paying all our suppliers promptly without delaying payments to maximise interest income of ease company cash flows. We recognise that for small local suppliers prompt payments are critical.
We collect feedback from you at the end of the tour, not only these feedback help us improve our service standards, we also share these feedback with International students who contact us for information on eco tourists to complete their research assignments.
We only employ English-speaking Sri Lankan naturalist guides who are all licensed by the Sri Lanka Tourist Board. These guides work exclusively for us. They have been leading special interest tours for the past 15 years or more.
We take our environmental responsibilities seriously and strive to minimise the impact on the environment. We do not in anyway compromise our legal and ethical responsibilities towards the community.
We invite every traveler who books a vacation via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the vacations they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same vacation can have different views!
