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Our office
Halady Road, Koteshwara,
Kundapura, Udupi District – 576222, Karnataka -
Phone
+91 94496 06060
+91 94833 03030 - Email uvameridianmarketing@gmail.com
About Us
Two brothers, one coastline
Everything here was built in Kundapura, by people from Kundapura, at a time when nobody was building anything of this size outside a city. It went on to reach an audience the town never expected.
B Udaya Kumar Shetty
B Vinaya Kumar Shetty
Managing Directors
Managing Directors
- UVA Meridian Bay Resort & Spa
- UVA Meridian Convention Centre
- UVA Sands Beach Resort
- UVA Meridian Amusement Park
- Coorg UVA Pvt Ltd
Joint Managing Directors
- UVA Manish Business Hotel
Secretary
- Kundapura Rural Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital — a 100-bed teaching hospital serving the rural taluk
Built before anyone asked for it
None of this existed on the Kundapura coast before it was built here. Each one was a bet placed on a small town.
Kundapura is no longer somewhere you drive through
For most of its modern life, Kundapura was a point on the highway between Mangalore and Goa — a place to stop for lunch on the way to somewhere else. A twelve-hundred-delegate congress, a national dealer meet, a wedding with a floating crowd of fifteen thousand: all of it meant booking a city.
UVA Meridian changed the arithmetic, and the proof is in who now comes. The Karnataka Ophthalmic Society has brought its state conference here three times. The Indian Psychiatric Society held its Karnataka chapter conference here, and Kasturba Medical College, Manipal returned with a mid-term CME in April 2026. The national Royal Enfield rider community gathered here. State and all-India chess championships have been played across these halls, cultural programmes filmed here for state television, and dealer meets held for Mercedes-Benz, Maruti Suzuki, Havells, HDFC Bank, ITC and Nestlé.
The world came too. When CCIVS — the international voluntary service body founded under UNESCO — brought its global conference to India, delegates from across continents spent it in Koteshwar. Guests arriving through Tripadvisor, Booking.com, Agoda and MakeMyTrip have been rating the property highly enough to win awards on those platforms year after year, and Travellers’ Choice has followed every year since 2017. For a great many of those travellers, Kundapura is now a destination with a name, not a road sign.
Every delegate and every guest slept here, ate here, and drove out to Kollur, Murudeshwar and Maravanthe on the days either side. That is what a property of this scale does to a small town’s economy — and it is precisely the outcome the brothers set out to build.
What UVA Meridian proved
The contribution is not a slogan. It is a demonstration: that a destination property of real scale — conventions, weddings, a park, a spa, a studio, rooms and restaurants under one gate — can be built and sustained in a coastal taluk rather than a state capital, and can draw national and international business to it.
For Udupi district, that has meant conference tourism, wedding tourism and family tourism arriving on top of the pilgrimage and beach traffic the coast already had. For Karnataka tourism, it has meant one more reason for a visitor to turn off the highway and stay several nights instead of a few hours. For the hospitality industry on this coast, it set a benchmark that others now build against — which may be the most useful thing a first mover can leave behind.
Where five rivers meet the sea
Kundapura sits at a confluence. The Souparnika, Varahi, Kedaka, Chakra and Kubja join as the Panchagangavalli and empty into the Arabian Sea just west of the town, which is why the estuary, the sandbars and the long shallow beaches look the way they do. At Maravanthe, minutes up the highway, the river runs along one side of the road and the sea along the other.
The town belongs to Udupi district — a coast known for temple kitchens and for the people who carried them outward. Udupi cuisine began in the kitchens of the Sri Krishna Matha and travelled with Udupi families to restaurants across India and well beyond it. Kundapura added its own line to that story: chicken ghee roast, built on ghee, jaggery, tamarind and chilli, is a Kundapura dish.
Within reach: Kollur Mookambika Temple and the Kodachadri hills inland, Murudeshwar up the coast, St Mary’s Island off Malpe, and the Western Ghats inside a morning’s drive. Mangalore International Airport is 91 km away, under two hours by road.
Six businesses, one origin
Five of them sit on this coast. The sixth took the same thinking inland to Coorg.
UVA Meridian Bay Resort & Spa
The 35-acre flagship at Koteshwar — rooms, suites, spa and five restaurants.
Resort & spaUVA Meridian Convention Centre
Ten indoor and open-air venues, from a 25-seat boardroom to a 5,000-capacity park.
Corporate & eventsUVA Meridian Amusement & Water Park
Coastal Karnataka’s largest, on the same estate as the resort.
Amusement parkUVA Meridian Film Studio
A production floor and support spaces for film, television and commercial shoots.
Film studioUVA Sands Beach Resort
A sister beach property, used for larger delegate groups and overflow.
UVA Manish Business Hotel
A business hotel for shorter corporate stays.
Coorg UVA Pvt Ltd
The group’s interests beyond the coast, in Coorg.
A hundred beds for the taluk
Alongside the hospitality businesses sits the Kundapura Rural Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital, a 100-bed teaching hospital where B Udaya Kumar Shetty and B Vinaya Kumar Shetty hold the Secretary’s office. Rural healthcare and rural tourism have been built here in parallel, by the same hands, for the same place.
Judged by others, repeatedly
Excellence in Luxury & Leisure Stay at the Times Business Awards. Best Innovative Enterprise at the Nitte-KBL MSME Business Excellence Awards, and again for Tourism at the MAHE Bengaluru conclave. Excellence in Destination Weddings & Convention Centre at ET Achievers Karnataka. Best Convention Hotel at the India Hospitality Awards. Kannada Prashasti. And a Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice award every year since 2017 — the one decided entirely by guests.
Stay, celebrate or spend the day with us
Rooms, banquets, conventions, dining and family attractions on one coastal estate in Kundapura. Tell us what you're planning and we'll help you organise it.