Sayeman Beach Resort is a five-star seaside resort located by

Kolatoli Square Kolatoli Square (also known as Dolphin Square and Shark Square) is a place in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. It can be reached from the capital Dhaka by taking the N110 (Bangladesh), N110 highway from the N1 (Bangladesh), N1. It spans 170 meters from the ...

Cox's Bazar Cox's Bazar (; ; ) is a city, fishing port, tourism centre, and Cox's Bazar District, district headquarters in south-eastern Bangladesh. Cox's Bazar Beach, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Bangladesh, is the longest uninterrupte ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

. It is the successor of Sayeman Hotel, the first private hotel of the city. The construction of the resort was started initially in 2013 and completed in 2015.

History

In 1964, Sayedur Rahman established a private hotel named "Hotel Sayeman" in Cox's Bazar,

East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...

. It was the first privately owned hotel in the city. Five years later, in 1969, Mosharraf Hossain, son of the hotel's founder, and

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), also known by the honorific Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman and activist who was the founding president of Bangladesh. As the leader of Bangl ...

stayed at this hotel during a trip to Cox's Bazar, and a candlelight dinner was organized in their honor. In independent

in 1979, Mosharraf Hossain converted it into a resort with 75 rooms. Later

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and

Sheikh Rehana Sheikh Rehana Siddiq (born 13 September 1955) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician. She is the younger sister of the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the daughter of the first President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She is also ...

were also guests of this hotel. In 2013 it was announced to build a resort condominium called "Sayeman Heritage Residence" in place of the old hotel and the hotel was shifted from Baharchora to Kolatoli which was renamed as "Sayeman Beach Resort". The new resort was inaugurated on 15 January 2015 in the presence of

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, the then minister of civil aviation and tourism.

Features

The

Cox's Bazar beach Cox's Bazar Beach (), located at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, is the longest natural sea beach in the world running and 5th longest beach after Praia do Cassino of Brazil, Padre Island on the US Gulf Coast ...

can be seen from most of the rooms of this 288-room resort. There are ocean and deluxe suites, restaurants, swimming pools, bar deck, ballroom and convention hall.

Tax evasion

According to a report published by

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in 2021, no income tax return has been submitted by the resort authority for 6 years from 2015. After publication of the report, the authority paid in advance as income tax return. The report also noted that the resort had falsified their income.

Pollution

In 2019, the Environment Department fined the authority for allegedly dumping polluted water into the sea.

Lawsuit

In 1999, 15 square kilometers of coastal area of Cox's Bazar was legally declared as a protected area for environmental reasons, but the Sayeman Beach Resort authority took the land of the area on lease to build the resort at Kolatoli. In 2019, a lawsuit ruled that the lease was invalid and the resort building was ordered to be demolished.

Award

In 2019, Sayeman Beach Resort won South Asian Travel Awards (SATA) award under leading beach resort category. In an event was held in

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, the award was given to

Mahboob Rahman Mahboob Rahman Ruhel (born 8 July 1970) is a Bangladeshi politician, businessman and film producer. He is the Chairman of The Peninsula Chittagong Limited since 30 October 2014. He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Film and Best S ...

, managing director of the resort. It again became recipient of the award in 2024.

References

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* {{Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Buildings and structures in Cox's Bazar Hotels in Bangladesh Resorts in Bangladesh Hotel buildings completed in 2015 1964 establishments in East Pakistan