India’s Otherland Hotels to open Oceanfront property in Galle

Otherland Hotels is set to open Otherland Galle in June 2026, marking the brand’s first oceanfront international property and its most visible statement yet in the lifestyle hotels category it is here to redefine.

Situated close to Galle Fort on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, the 66-key property positions itself at the intersection of the town’s surf culture, evolving tourism landscape, and emerging creative subcultures as a truly dedicated lifestyle address.

Commenting on the launch, Rishi Sreedharan, Founder andCEO, Otherland Hotels, said: “South Asia is loud, alive, dripping with culture and taste, and deserves a hospitality brand that can speak its language without putting on a costume. Otherland is our vision to achieve this.”

“We want to be unmistakable somewhere, and then somewhere else, and then again, each time earning our place with a distinctive lifestyle language, built for the modern traveller who wants more than just an accommodation. Galle, with its excellent surf culture, evolving tourism landscape, and exciting creative subcultures, is exactly the kind of place where we want to be.”

The brand operates on four pillars: fluid experiences, rooms as basecamp, human hospitality, and differentiated F&B. Galle is the first in a planned collective of experience-led hotels, restaurants, and beach clubs across the region. Otherland Galle is developed with Emanuel Sidhartha as Co-Founder.

Samarth Gowda, Co-Founder & COO, Otherland Hotels, adds: “The choice of Galle as our first location felt like the truest version of what Otherland could be layered, alive, and completely its own.”

“For us, going international didn’t mean going global in the conventional sense. It meant finding a place in our own backyard that the world hadn’t fully discovered yet, and building something there that belongs. Independent hotels, at their best, don’t just reflect a destination, they amplify it. That’s the only way we know how to do this.” (www.hotelierindia.com)