Kalutara, Sri Lanka – 19 October 2026 – Minor Inns Sri Lanka has introduced two management promotions throughout its Kalutara resort complicated, comprising Anantara Kalutara Resort and Avani Kalutara Resort. Jude Silva, beforehand Resort Supervisor at Avani Kalutara Resort, has been promoted to Complicated Resort Supervisor, whereas Ashane Fernando, previously Cluster Assistant Director of Gross sales, has been promoted to Complicated Director of Operations. Each appointments embody Anantara Kalutara Resort and Avani Kalutara Resort, bringing collectively in depth resort administration expertise and a robust understanding of hospitality operations and business efficiency.
The promotions have a good time two distinct profession journeys rooted in hands-on visitor service and formed by steady studying. Collectively, Jude Silva and Ashane Fernando carry views that can help the groups throughout each properties in delivering considerate service, strengthening operational requirements and creating memorable stays that replicate every model’s particular person character.
Jude’s hospitality profession started within the early Nineteen Eighties in housekeeping, laying the muse for many years of progress into resort management. His expertise spans Villa Ocean View, Resort Sigiriya and Hibiscus Resort, adopted by his function as Govt Housekeeper at Resort Serendib in Bentota, the place he strengthened his operational experience and folks administration expertise.
In 2009, a cross-exposure placement at Anantara Hua Hin Resort in Thailand, facilitated by Serendib Leisure Administration, broadened his understanding of worldwide luxurious hospitality and Anantara’s service tradition. He later assumed wider administration tasks at Membership Resort Dolphin earlier than becoming a member of Avani Kalutara Resort as Resident Supervisor and progressing to Resort Supervisor.
His promotion to Complicated Resort Supervisor recognises a profession formed by perseverance, steady studying and a dedication to folks, bringing in depth operational information and considerate.
Ashane started his profession as a Entrance Workplace Trainee at Cinnamon Crimson Colombo, gaining an understanding of visitor service earlier than transferring into gross sales. Over greater than eight years with Cinnamon Inns & Resorts, he progressed by way of gross sales and business roles throughout metropolis and resort properties. His last place with the group was Senior Supervisor – Gross sales at Cinnamon Bentota Seashore, the place he contributed to the resort’s transition into Cinnamon’s luxurious Signature Choice.
In March 2025, Ashane joined Minor Inns Sri Lanka as Cluster Assistant Director of Gross sales, overseeing conferences, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE), leisure and company enterprise throughout the Sri Lankan portfolio. His tasks spanned company accounts, weddings, group enterprise and vacation spot gross sales, additional creating his understanding of how business technique interprets into visitor expectations and lodge efficiency.
Appointed Complicated Director of Operations in September 2026, Ashane now brings that business perspective to the supply of the visitor expertise throughout each Kalutara resorts. The transfer builds on his entrance workplace beginnings, connecting his information of markets and consumer wants with the every day work of resort groups. His focus is on aligning the experiences promised to company with the service they obtain, whereas supporting staff growth and long-term enterprise progress.
Set between the Indian Ocean and the Kalu Ganga lagoon on Sri Lanka’s west coast, Anantara Kalutara Resort and Avani Kalutara Resort kind a particular coastal resort complicated inside handy attain of Colombo. The neighbouring Minor Inns properties carry two complementary hospitality experiences into one vacation spot: Anantara’s personalised luxurious and sense of place, alongside Avani’s relaxed model and full of life social environment.
Throughout the complicated, company can form their keep round personal pool villa residences, Geoffrey Bawa-inspired structure, distinctive eating, spa and Ayurvedic wellness experiences, or household recreation and journey. Lagoon water sports activities, kayaking and actions on the Glider Journey Tower add an energetic dimension to a coastal escape, whereas wedding ceremony and assembly services prolong the vacation spot’s attraction to celebrations and enterprise gatherings. This breadth offers {couples}, households and teams the liberty to mix rest, discovery and shared experiences inside one Kalutara setting. As Jude and Ashane step into their expanded roles, their journeys provide an encouraging instance of the alternatives hospitality creates for many who proceed to study and develop. Their mixed expertise will assist information the following chapter for Anantara Kalutara Resort and Avani Kalutara Resort, with the folks behind every visitor expertise on the coronary heart of their management.
