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  Meet the team
Everyone in the travel and hospitality trade knows this is a labour of love. Great hospitality comes from the heart. It requires a great deal of empathy and insight.

We are all avid travelers. We love lounging around in our office in Colombo (with a steaming cup of pure Ceylon tea) and bouncing holiday ideas off each other. We really get a kick out of creating and delivering amazing experiences, and helping people make the most of their well earned vacation.

Truth be told Sri Lanka is so beautiful it blows people away. And the feedback we get blows us away...
 
Miguel Cunat
Miguel's association with hospitality and travel goes back to the early 1900's when his family setup the first ski resort and "boutique hotel" in the mountains near Madrid. Miguel's grandfather was interrailing around Europe in the 1920's half a century before the Interrail ticket even existed! The thirst for adventure and the tradition for the hospitality trade lives on. Miguel grew up crisscrossing the globe between Spain and Australia and he has lived in places as far fetched as London, Bangkok or Singapore. A keen traveller and adventurer Miguel has visited some 37 countries around the globe from Denmark to Iran, to Turkey, to Morroco. In Sri Lanka most of his adventures have been on the back of a motorbike or a mountain bike. Miguel has lived with his family in Sri Lanka since 2003 and has been involved with Sri Lanka InStyle since its inception in 2005. As tourism in Sri Lanka develops he is passionate about preserving the islands environment and culture.
Viren Perera

Having spent his childhood in Canada, Sri Lankan born Viren set off with his back pack making his way around the world.  Finally reaching the isle of serendip Viren decided that Sri Lanka was truly his home. As an entrepreneur who started as an investment banker and then set up numerous successful businesses, Viren's heart was always in travel & tourism. He founded the unique - Ulpotha, voted as "The Best Yoga Retreat in the World" by The Observer Magazine & recently opened up a superb beach front property www.alankuda.com on the central western coast of Sri Lanka. Passionate about eco-cultural tourism and of his native country, Sri Lanka, Viren is a Director of the Instyle group offering invaluable vision to the Sri Lanka InStyle team.

Irstel Jansen

Dutch born Irstel Jansen has been traveling since she was 6 months old and her thirst for traveling never ended. Her travels around the globe with lengthy visits to countries such as Iran, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Nepal and her search for unusual places made her discover Sri Lanka and stay. Her passion for this beautiful island and its people together with her previous live and work experiences in places like Madrid, Singapore, Amsterdam and Colombo inspire her to continue her life-changing adventures with her husband, Miguel and their two boys, Ruben and Samuel.

Irstel joined the team in January 2007. Currently she runs our marketing and promotional activities for Sri Lanka and Indochina In Style from Bangkok. Her renowned eye for beauty and attention to detail reminds us every day that the pursuit of beauty is as important as the pursuit of excellence.

Sudesh Hettiwana
Like most Sri Lankans Sudesh is an avid cricketer and wildlife enthusiast. Any spare weekend he has he prefers to be either in the cool of Kandy, immersed in Yala National Park spotting leopard or simply chilling out at the natural sanctuary of Ulpotha.

His dream is to travel to Canada and explore its' many national parks. Sudesh has a degree in Computer Science and works at Sri Lanka InStyle as a Tech Lead / Webmaster. 
Libby Southwell
From the backwoods of Australia to the highlands of Nepal to the sun kissed elephant polo fields of Galle, Australian Libby Southwell has literally been there, done that and written the book. Having travelled the world and been to the most extraordinary places, Libby left her successful career in advertising and moved to Sri Lanka in 2002. Her experiences in Sri Lanka are vast & varied making her a valuable consultant to the Sri Lanka InStyle team. Libby currently runs businesses in up-market tourism and is also the Festival Director of the world's leading Galle Literary Festival.
Tania Brassey
Author of the Insight Guide to Sri Lanka, Tania last year returned to live in Sri Lanka where she was hand-reared on mangoes, mirris and mayhem. She lives in Kandy, co-writing a screenplay based on her novel about life in '50s Ceylon and pens an occasional column for SAGA Magazine on ex-pats who make their homes outside Britain.

In between, she tramples on her Barefoot Shiatsu clients when she can get them to lie still. It's a hard life. But the men underneath her don't complain.
Emma Boyle

Sri Lanka was Emma's last destination on a year-long round-the-world trip and after more than four years of living in the country, it has also proved to be her final port of call!  Having visited 29 countries and worked for a selection of magazines and newspapers in Central and South America on a variety of subjects - from the politics of the Presidential House in Honduras to the depths of the Amazon Rainforest in Bolivia - Emma has a proven love for foreign culture and far flung places.

An avid reader, she particularly enjoys novels, travel biographies and films set in foreign climes. Now working as a freelance writer she contributes travel-orientated articles and photographs to a wide range of magazines and is also working on a yet-to-be-published guidebook to the island.

Her favorite parts of the island are the Hill Country and the wild beaches of Tangalle.

Thushara Kariyawasam
When Thushara is not cooking up a storm making his favourite Sri Lankan fish curry (believe me its good!), he is exploring Sri Lanka’s natural beauty. Thushara’s favourite part of Sri Lanka is Pasagoda Beach – known as one of the most beautiful beaches in Sri Lanka! With a career that spans from insurance to computers and now the travel industry Thushara has the all important role of Financial Controller for the InStyle Group.
Ashleigh Ogier
Ashleigh started a love affair with Sri Lanka in the early 90s when she introduced the first credit card terminals to the Sri Lankan banks.  Australian born and growing up in Hong Kong, Asia has always felt most like home. After living and working out of Hong Kong, Singapore and London finally Ashleigh got to live in Sri Lanka managing the beautiful Kandy House luxury boutique hotel in Kandy and working with their wonderful team as well as having her third child there. Since then she has also managed the very remote Malikha Lodge at the foot of the Himalaya mountains in Norther Kachin State, Myanmar which is another story! Married to a Frenchman with 3 daughters, recently her path has led to living in Lyon, France. From there Ashleigh is delighted to promote Sri Lanka in Style's services as our France representative, sharing her love of all things Sri Lankan and her indepth knowledge of traveling sur mesure in this still well kept secret of an island. For Ashleigh Sri Lanka offers the ideal destination with something to satisfy every traveler - wildlife  with the greatest concentrations of leopard and elephant in the world, whalewatching and birdwatching, gorgeous beaches, ancient civilisations with UNESCO World Heritage Sites, great golf, everchanging scenery and good weather, uniquely hospitable people,  an amazing mixture of cultures and religions, tea plantations, local festivals, fabulous food... If you are passing through Lyon join her for rice and curry or give Ashleigh a call/email to discuss your holiday plans!
Maria

It is no wonder that Maria has the travel bug. Maria was born in England and spent her childhood in Indonesia with her Scottish father who was born in India, and English mother who was brought up in the West Indies and Africa. Sri Lanka became Maria's adopted home when she first came there as a volunteer 26 years ago, working in an orphanage situated in a quiet rural village in the southern part of the island. As an adult she has lived, studied and travelled widely in Bali, Sulawesi, Java, Yemen, England, New Zealand, and Australia. She returned to Sri Lanka many times as a student and backpacker, as a fiancee exploring less-travelled roads to Sri Lanka's remotest areas with her future husband; and more recently as a mother of four spending the last six years living in Colombo and rediscovering with her family many of Sri Lanka's amazing secrets during the school holidays. Maria is passionate about sharing this experience and the huge diversity Sri Lanka has to offer including the laid back attitude of its people. A swami in Kataragama once told Maria she would live in 11 different countries. Having just moved to Perth from SriLanka she is well on the way to doing just that!

 
   
   
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