North Kerala - Thalassery and Kappad - waiting to be explored
Jan 21 2006
Thalaserry (a small town located 85 kms north of Calicut , which still retains the colonial touch) and Kappad ( 17 kms from Calicut - a place with lot of historical significance - it's the place where Vasco Da Gama landed ) have not yet found a place in the tourist charts.It is unfair to hold these wonderful places away from the discerning tourists.

Project to make road travel easy in kerala
Jan 21 2006
One hundred and fourteen entrepreneurs have joined a unique entrepreneurship-linked project conceived by Kerala tourism department to make road travel hassle free for tourists visiting the state.
The project, called Vazhiyoram, will be kicked off at a stakeholders meeting to be held at Cochin on February 6. Besides the entrepreneurs, architects of the units, bankers and suppliers of different products will take part in the meeting, which will finalise methods for standardising the services.

Neelakurinji in Munnar - 2006
Jan 12 2006
Its happy news for tourists and nature lovers as the exotic flora found in Munnar known as Neelakurinji is all set to bloom in the year 2006. The most peculiar feature of this flower is that it blooms only once in 12 years, and covers the hills of munnar in blue colour. So a great flow of tourists can be expected in Kerala especially to munnar in the year 2006..

'Alert independent travellers' to be wooed
 Jan 11 2006
 Kerala Tourism has decided to attract the `alert independent traveller' as part of moves to bring in more foreign tourists to the State in the coming days, E.K. Bharat Bhushan, Principal Secretary, Tourism, said here on Friday. Compared with the `sun, sand and surf traveller,' the alert independent traveller moved around for experience and had a mind of his own, he added.

India-Tourism-Growth 13 percent rise in foreign tourist arrivals in India
Jan 11 2006
Foreign tourist arrivals in India in the calendar year 2005 touched an all-time high of 3.91 million compared with 3.45 million registered last year which shows a rise of 13.2 percent.