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The Beach Orchid - Kollam

The Beach Orchid is located at Kollam (Quilon), 65 kilometers away from Trivandrum, the State Capital of Kerala.Kerala is “God’s Own Country” and Kollam or Quilon is “God’s Own city”. “Kollam Kandal Illam Venda”, means one who visits Kollam would abandon his own home to settle at Kollam. This popular proverb aptly reflects the prosperity and privileged status Kollam once enjoyed.

The Beach Orchid, situated with the Arabian sea on one side and the Backwaters on the other, is a twelve storied centrally air conditioned state- of -the -art hotel with 105 sea facing rooms providing facilities of a five star hotel such as multi - cuisine Restaurant, Coffee Shop, an infinity Pool, a roof top pool, International Spa and Kerala Ayurvedic Centre, an International Convention Centre with a capacity to accommodate 1200 persons, ideal for large conventions, marriages and receptions and seven conference halls of different capacities. The Hotel, which provides “Seven Wonder Views” of sea, beach, park, city, greenery, harbor and backwaters. The Hotel is all geared-up to provide professional MICE (Meeting, Incentives, Conference and Exhibitions) Tourism infrastructure and services, making it an ideal venue for corporates both big and small. Expert Event Management services are provided by the Hotel on a package or customized basis. The participating delegates and executives are guaranteed a comfortable stay with all five star facilities and can also enjoy sight seeing tours to major Tourist attractions.

The Chairman & Managing Director of the Hotel is Mr. K. SREEKUMAR an Electrical Engineer, a former NRI, Kollam based businessman and skillful administrator engaged in Consultancy and Contracting Business.He has carried out Consulting and Electrification works of many Five Star Hotels and other prestigious projects like New High Court Complex, Cochin, and Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Bio technology, Trivandrum. He is one among the most successful Businessmen in contemporary Kollam and has been rightly rewarded with many prestigious awards for his excellence in Engineering

The General Manager Mr. Sreekumar Kunnath is a post-diploma holder in hotel administration from IHM-Mumbai and has completed advance study in Food & Beverages Management from the Hotel School in Hague, Netherlands and has acquired more than 16 years experience in Hotel Industry.

The hotel is being promoted as an Ecotel hotel managed by M/s. Concept Hospitality, Mumbai, who manages the Orchid Group of Hotels world wide. The Orchid – an Ecotel Hotel is Asia’s first certified eco-friendly five-star hotel and world’s only Ecotel to be certified an ISO -14001. It has received more than 54 national and international awards for its commitment to save environment by practicing responsible tourism. The Ecotel ® collection is an exclusive group of International inns, hotels and resorts that define the concept of environmental responsibility in the hospitality industry. All Ecotel certified hotels must pass a detailed inspection and satisfy stringent criteria set by environmental experts.

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