In spite of
business turmoil Kerala tourism has register 8 per cent yearly expansion in the
revenues at Rs 21,000 crore. Subsequent to Europe,
Kerala is looking forward for bi-lateral trade with foreign markets such as US and Japan to draw attention of tourist at Kerala.
Kerala is looking forward for bi-lateral trade with foreign markets such as US and Japan to draw attention of tourist at Kerala.
The department
of tourism has also inducted a facility of visa on arrival for populace of 16
nations at the international airports of Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi airports
to uphold tourism in those countries.
To exert a pull
on commercial communities from nation like Australia and China can be consider
as a strong approach from a department of state tourism.
A citizen from
Japan, Singapore, Finland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, the Philippines, Cambodia,
Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Indonesia would be given a thirty day tourist visa
on arrival.
Kerala is considerably growing on tourist arrivals as far as
statistics are concern it was 0.73 million in 2011 which has gone up to 0.79
million in 2012 and it has helped in earning foreign currency which was
4,221.99 crore in 2011 has increased to 4,548 crore in 2012 and if we look from
the revenue perspective it has grown up from 19,037 crore in 2011 to 21,125
crore in 2012.
As said by Suman
Billa, secretary, of Kerala tourism development council they are focusing on
markets like USA and Japan much cause of hold up in Europe he further added
tourism is growing considerably preceding year over 1 crore tourist had made
their way to Kerala and within the endorsement campaign, the usual feast for
distant tourist was anticipated to grow up to 18 days then in hand standard
stay of 16.2 days.
Mr. Billa
further added they have initiated a host of path breaking mobile based services
and IT enabled plans to boost the experience of voyage at Kerala. The
technology core of products has been introduced like wap guide, handset
website, android application and IOS and Bluetooth Kiosks.
Sea plane
prospect for better connectivity by air and government has employed 4 private
players for air connectivity for tourist destination across the state
prospective like Muziris which concentrate in historical and cultural
importance of the celebrated port of Muziris.
To implement sea
plane project department of tourism has employed Kerala Tourism Infrastructure
Limited as a central agency to provide better tune in tourism it is to provide
priority course for three airports of Trivandrum, Cochin and Calicut and the
major spots such as Astamudi, Punnamada, Kumarakom, Bolgatty and Bekal in the
state.
