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{{short description|Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
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| name                = The Kingsbury
| logo                = 
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| image               = The Kingsbury.jpg
| image_size          = 250px              
| image_caption       = The hotel as seen from the Chaithya Road
| map_type            = Sri Lanka Colombo Central
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| map_caption         = Location within central Colombo
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| former_names        = {{unbulleted list|Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo|Ceylon Inter-Continental Hotel}}
| building_type       = [[Hotel]]
| address             = 48 Janadhipathi Mawatha
| location_city       = Colombo
| location_country    = Sri Lanka
| coordinates         = {{coord|6.9329|79.8419|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| opened_date         = {{Start date and age|1973}}
| number_of_rooms       = 
| number_of_suites      = 
| number_of_restaurants = 
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| website             = {{URL|https://www.thekingsburyhotel.com|www.thekingsburyhotel.com}}
| embedded            =  {{Infobox company
| embed = yes
| name = The Kingsbury PLC
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{Colombo Stock Exchange|SERV.N0000}}
| ISIN = {{ISIN|sl=n|pl=y|LK0084N00000}}
| industry = [[Hospitality industry|Hospitality]]
| key_people = {{unbulleted list|A. M. Pandithage (Executive Chairman)| Rohan Karr (Managing Director)}}
| revenue = {{increase}} [[Sri Lankan rupee|LKR]]2,022 million
| revenue_year = 2021/22
| operating_income = {{increase}} LKR(457) million
| income_year = 2021/22
| net_income =  {{increase}} LKR(427) million
| net_income_year = 2021/22
| assets = {{increase}} LKR4,304 million
| assets_year = 2021/22
| equity = {{decrease}} LKR1,127 million
| equity_year = 2021/22
| owner = {{Unbulleted list|[[Hayleys]] (36.08%)|Carbotels (Pvt) Ltd (23.40%)|[[Employees' Provident Fund (Sri Lanka)|Employees' Provident Fund]] (10.56%)}}
| parent = Hayleys
| footnotes = <ref name="Annual Report">{{cite web |title=Annual Report 2021/22 |url=https://cdn.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/543_1654515728388.pdf |website=cse.lk |publisher=The Kingsbury PLC |access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref>
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'''The Kingsbury''', trading as '''The Kingsbury PLC''', formerly the '''Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo''' and the '''Ceylon [[InterContinental|Inter-Continental]] Hotel''', is a nine-story hotel located at 48, Janadhipathi Mawatha in the city centre of [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]]. It was built by [[U. N. Gunasekera]], and is owned by Hotel Services (Ceylon) PLC, which is a subsidiary of [[Hayleys PLC]]. It was refurbished and reopened in January 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/cse-listed-kingsbury-hotel-serv-reports-a-loss-revenue-flat/|title=CSE listed Kingsbury hotel (SERV) reports a loss, revenue flat – Lanka Business Online|last=LBO|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref>

==History==
Unlike the 1960s resort architecture, Ceylon InterContinental was an example of high rise engineering.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pieris |first1=Anoma |title=Coastal architectures and politics of tourism: leisurescapes in the global sunbelt |date=2023 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-1-00062-309-3 |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWp2EAAAQBAJ |access-date=25 August 2022 |chapter=Decolonizing Leisurescapes}}</ref> A [[Colombo Central Bank bombing|bomb exploded]] in nearby [[Central Bank of Sri Lanka]] building on 30 January 1996, killing at least 90 people. The hotel was damaged in the bombings.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chalk |first1=Peter |title=Encyclopedia of Terrorism |date=2013 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |location=Santa Barbara, Calif. |isbn=978-0-31330-895-6 |page=159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wwPNjSnxcYC |access-date=25 August 2022}}</ref>

It was one of the sites targeted during the [[2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings|2019 Sri Lanka bombings]] that occurred on [[Easter Sunday]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2019/04/21/local/183395/three-more-explosions-kingsbury-shangri-la-cinnamon-grand|title=Three more explosions Kingsbury, Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand|last=|first=|date=|website=Daily News|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=21 April 2019}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Amaya Resorts & Spas]], a hotel brand owned by Hayleys Group

==References==
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