How Jetwing survived, grew and sold Sri Lanka to the world.
I don’t want another corporate interview. I want Herbert as a human being. What was he actually like when nobody was watching? Why did you come home instead of building your life in America? What did your father understand that modern executives don’t? What did you fight with him about? What nearly killed Jetwing? Which hotel frightened you most financially? Why were you spending money on sustainability before it became fashionable? What did the war teach you? What did Easter Sunday teach you? What did COVID teach you? What has Government consistently misunderstood about tourism?
And after everything you have seen, why are you still betting on Sri Lanka?
Those are the stories worth preserving.
I have already made a book cover concept and 3D diorama for you because I would rather show you that we are ready than send you another vague proposal. We have already done this kind of work with Hemasiri and Quintus. We take firsthand memories, interviews and experiences and turn them into structured books, covers, visual material, public author identities and products people can actually buy.
And we know how to finish the job. AngryPages can interview you, identify the strongest stories, structure the book, edit it, design it, package it, publish it digitally and distribute it. When we are ready to put it on paper, we already have Sumathi Printers available to print it here.
This is not something where I hand you a concept and disappear. We can go from the first conversation to the finished book.
There is also a second opportunity later: Jetwing itself. Herbert, you, the family, the staff who stayed for decades, the hotels, the communities around them, the guests who kept returning and the next generation carrying it forward.
Not a glossy advertisement pretending to be a book.
A real book with real people and real stories.
Something Jetwing can leave in a room for somebody arriving from America, Europe, India or anywhere else and quietly say:
This is who built the place you are staying in.
And this matters commercially too.
Sri Lankan companies repeatedly build excellent things and assume the world will somehow notice.
It won’t.