Six Senses Resorts & Spas will set up two resort properties in India in the next two to three years. These two properties will come up in Nilgiris in the South and in the Andaman islands. This information was divulged by Sonu Shivdasani, Chairman and CEO, Six Senses recently in New Delhi. The Bangok-based company has identified 2,000 acres of land at a hill top overlooking tea gardens at Nilgiris for the same, he informed. The one at Andamans will be a beach resort.
When asked about the brands Six Senses will look at for these properties, Shivdasani informed that in the Nilgiris the property would definitely be a Six Senses Destination Spa, and at Andamans, the brand would be either be ‘Evolution’ or a ‘Hideaway’.
On the sustainability front, he said that all the group hotels would become ‘decarbonised’ by 2020. He informed that all the Six Senses properties have started producing potable water for their guests on their own, thereby reducing the use of imported bottled water for all purposes. “We want our group to be ‘decarbonising’ by 2020 whereby we are just not zero carbon, not emitting any CO2 in our operation, |