CONTROVERSIAL SEA PLANE SERVICE TO RESUME SOON

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Seaplanes services since 2012 has become an issue as it is facing a opposition from the fishermen community and urging the tourism department to stop as it would bring an adverse impact over the livelihood of hundreds of fishermen of Kerala. But even after so many complications and opposition, it seems the service will resume after the general elections of this year are over.

According to the officials of Kerala Tourism Infrastructure Limited (KTIL), the operations of the seaplanes would begin by the end of April or in May.

The fishermen opposition against the service is yet to be consider as the expert committee constituted to study the impact is yet to submit it final report. The committee has made discussions a month ago, but opportunity of making a spot study of landing and takeoff is not received as the only seaplane which was brought for the inaugural service at Kollam has also been taken back to Bangalore.

 

The preparation of the flight service is in full swing and the three operators are willing to provide the services, the KTIL officials said.

Orders given for craft:

 

 

Order for making craft for operations in Kerala has been already given to the U.S. based company, a Kochi based operator told The Hindu. The sea planes are ready and for the operations it will be brought soon, he said.  A representative of one of the operator said, the company plans to lunch operations between Kochi and Lakshadweep. 

Flight services are also being planned from Bekal in Northern Kerala to destinations in Karnataka. The plane will also be used for emergency services like evacuation during natural disaster and transporting patient during emergency medical treatment.

Sea plane operator is also set to launch operations in Mumbai, to connect place where there is lack of proper connectivity for places of tourist interest. The service is assumed to start by the end of March, according to sources in the industry.

Meanwhile the fishermen who protested about the adverse effect of seaplane service in backwater have withstood with their demand. The demands of the fishermen are backed by various trade unions and during the election period the unions will take softer stand. 

The issue has become a major one as some of the political parties are taking it serious as the community is a potential vote bank. Some of the parties have gathered strength as large number of fishermen live along the coastal areas of backwaters and Kerala. 

 

 

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Growing Demand of Eco-Tourism Destination

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Around the world there are many environmentally friendly tourism destinations and when it comes to such destinations, certain local destinations certainly comes to the mind immediately. Vietnam, Kenya, Cameroon are considered to be the most classic destinations. But looking at the growing popularity of the eco-tourism destination certain places are adding more to the list. Below mention are some of the most popular destinations which are gaining momentum and are most preferred for eco-tourism scene.  

Dubai

Dubai much known for its high rising modern building and intricate structure with world class architecture, recently the emirate was recommended as the emerging eco-tourism destination. Visitors who are interested for eco-tourism tour can plan trip to Dubai’s nature reserve or visit to the desert area with the local guides. 

Dubai in recent time has become the most popular tourism destination be it for shopping, pilgrimage or for exciting tour, but with the eco-tourism coming into picture, its surely going to be a hot-spot for tourists in times to come.

Kerala, India

Kerala is no doubt world renowned for its eco-tourism initiative and recently the government and the Department of Tourism is putting all their effort to promote eco-tourism of the state. A growing number of eco-tourists are heading to the state in Southwest India to visit dozens of national park, wildlife sanctuaries, reserve bio-sphere and the protected areas. 

The state is developing the state tourism with the slogon “God’s Own Country” and the Department of Tourism is investing in development and promotion of responsible tourism as a sustainable and responsible form of economic development. 

 

 

 

Bhutan

Bhutan is next tourism destination which is slowly establishing itself as an eco-tourism destination. This south Asian nation, respect of all the local customs and the nature has been established by the government, giving priority as a national importance. 

The eco-tourism opportunities fall within the luxury category and only high end clients are targeted, as each visitor has to pay a daily tax of $250. These taxes go for preservation of the landlocked country, which is beautifully located between India and China.

 Bhutan provides an excellent opportunity to relish the beauty of the protected areas, exceptional natural and cultural beauty, protected parks and forest reserves. Visiting this landlocked country will surely let you have once in a lifetime experience. 

 

 

Myanmar

Myanmar has diverse and rich reserve of flora and fauna and has one of its kinds of bio-logical reservoirs in Asia. The presence of the Eastern Himalaya, remote plateau which lies in the rain shadow region Madoi Madaing Razi Alpine rangeland, marine life, terrestrial ecosystems containing mosaic coral reefs, mangrove forests and the rain forest offer wonderful opportunity to  soak in the richness of the eco-tourism beauty. 

Slowly the country is opening for the international tourism providing an opportunity to interact with the local populations. The country also offer exciting opportunity for hiking from Kengtung with the most popular Golden Triangle as well as interact with the local villagers from Palaung, Akha, Lahu, Lisu, Khun tribes.  

 

 

In the coming years, there will be several more star destinations which will let eco-tourist to explore the richness of the nature, well preserved by the concern citizens and the country. 

 

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GOOGLE SUPPORTS THE PROMOTION OF HOUSEBOAT TOURISM

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 The Kerala Tourism Department’s judgment of toughening itself on teamwork between tour operators, property owners, travel agencies and search engines like Google and connectivity solutions like Wi-Fi and mobile internet is projected to come as a respite for the suffering houseboat sector here when viewed against Kerala’s fame as one of the most preferred tourist destinations on Google. Apart from this, a latest BBC World News survey claimed Kerala as a popular tourist hotspot.

Zacharia Appaneth, Deputy Tourism Director said that in 2013, about Rs 43 crore had been kept side for the endorsement of tourism. The net acted as the major platform for endorsements as the department had highly depended on Google.  Zacharia added, “Before the commencement of tourism season, we completed shooting new houseboat commercials and designed new print and visual ads for the circulation through the internet”.

According to Kerala Tourism spokesperson T.V. Prasanth, even with a little help from Google Inc, as around 7.94 lakh international tourists visited Kerala in 2012 compared to 7.33 lakh in 2011 with the state earning about Rs 21,125 crore from the tourism sector in 2012.

 

 He said, “A huge increase in interest among the foreign tourists for Kerala was witnessed due to the campaigns with the support of Google and connectivity solutions like Wi-Fi and mobile internet. Using the popularity of digital revolution, the state advertised itself with great efficiency on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.”

In 2012, the total income from both direct and indirect tourism in Kerala was estimated about Rs 21,125 crore compared to about Rs 19,037 crore the previous year. Also that, around 1.01 crore domestic tourists visited the state in 2012 compared to around 93.88 lakh domestic tourists in 2011. The official also stated that Foreign exchange earnings increased from about Rs 4,221.99 crore in 2011 to about Rs 4,548 crore in 2012.

District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) Secretary C. Pradeep revealed that this year, large number of enquiries had been coming in from abroad. He said, “Through internet, every year from Europe we have been receiving around 200-300 enquiries. It is the evidence that our internet marketing has produced an impact.”

On the other hand, the All Kerala Houseboat Owners Association (AKHOA) general secretary N.Sreekumar blamed the government for its failure in enforcing appealing promotional packages for foreign tourists who were interested to visit Kerala. Even with the existence of many obstacles, foreign tourists still wanted to visit Kerala. He also added that the chief source of income for houseboats income was via internet.

 

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Mangrove Plantation to Be a Center Of Eco Tourism

 

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 An adoption of process of growing mangroves like that of Kerala, Goa and Maharashtra, Karnataka has witness a new flocks of tourist at its shores of beauty, growing a mangroves at the site of coastal delta area have proved to be fertile for the state.

Named as mangrove tourist, they come in numbers to pay a visit to a most popular spot of Karwar and ullal; they are seen enjoying a beauty and loves to walk around at the site of mangrove plantation and even looks for a boat ride to see a beauty of nautical and avian life.

Mangroves forest near coastal area of Kanwar and ullal, have enhance after they went up growing a mangrove under a project of green wall 2008. As per the report from a department of forest there are more than 800 hectares of land within estuarine has been covered by a lush of mangrove which in later can be developed as eco tourist spot.

Dr Keshavnath, who has carried delve into research in zooplankton and phytoplankton, suggest planting of mangroves in more areas.

Hasiru kavacha or green armour has been developed as a mangrove plantation area covering a zone of over 300 acres; local village committee had taken an approach to develop the plantation of mangrove. After an introduction of carbon storing we have enhance its plantation, said by said Manjunath Shetty, assistant conservator of forests, Kundapur range.

“If we were to dissolve the carbon contents in the air quickly, we need large stretch of mangrove forests all along the coast. Fortunately, they grow pretty fast,” said Jayakar Bhandary, a botanist who guides various green groups in the coastal areas of Karnataka.

VN Nayak, director, Sub Regional Science Centre at Karwar and member of the Karnataka state environmental report committee 2011, defines mangroves a ‘carbon sink’. As they grow in saline water they shed leaves and recover it quickly making it evergreen again and the leaf that falls on the ground transformed itself into fertile manure the shedding process would happen if the plant ingest carbon and throw out oxygen. And this procedure earned them a name of carbon sink as mentioned by Nayak; he further said a new center of mangrove would facilitate a research and studies related with a fantastic species of plant. 

 

Tourism

Although a department of conservation are not in a favour to bring mangrove under a section of tourism but they also could not deny a fact of excluding it from a eco tourism is a crime, as people loves to circle around the field of mangrove for outsider it has became a wonderful attraction.

As said by Shetty, we do not know what acquires them near the field of mangrove as it call for a risk for a sensitive fish breeding process but their anxiety and their response has given us a idea to develop a finest mangrove eco tourism center. 

 

 

 

Importance of mangroves

 

Fisheries: Mangrove forests are home to a large variety of fish, crab, shrimp, and mollusk species. These fisheries form a necessary spring of food for thousands of coastal communities around the world. 

 

Timber and plant products: 

 

as the wood is of prime importance as it resist an insects it is a backbone for many coastal and indigenous communities.

 

Coastal protection: as it helps to alleviate by trapping sediments as a result it averts erosion from waves and storms. 

 

Tourism: Given the variety of life live in mangrove systems, and their immediacy in many cases to other tourist attractions such as coral reefs and sandy beaches, it is conceivably astounding that only a few countries have started to valve into the tourism latent of their mangrove forests.

 

What are mangroves?

Mangroves are a compilation of salt forbearing evergreen trees that grow in humid and sub-tropical coastal milieu and line just about 8% of the world’s coastlines.

As they grows both in land and water they are often termed as floating forest, an amazing roots of mangrove allows it to grow and float as their roots grows in fine muds.

They are unique because they occupy both land and water and are sometimes referred to as ‘floating forests’. This unique aspect of mangroves that enable them to ‘float’ is due to their aerial roots that develop in fine muds or sandy sediments.

 

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KERALA TOURISM OFFER NEW ADVENTURE AND HERITAGE SPOTS FOR TOURISTS

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Kerala tourism is eyeing 10 per cent growth in tourist arrivals this year and is developing adventure and heritage spots to broaden its target audience. 

 

Introducing new projects for leisure tourists, who come to Kerala for Ayurvedic treatments, to develop adventure holidays programmes, the Muziris Heritage site and the spice route revival project that can attract tourist all round the year. The state was witnessing eight per cent annual growth in tourism till 2013 and with the offer of new destinations, it expects over 10 per cent rise in arrivals in 2014. The total revenue from tourism crossed Rs. 21,000 crore in 2013, officials said. 

 

Muziris is the ancient world’s greatest trading port in the east where Arabs, Chinese, Jews, Romans, Portuguese and Dutch came to trade. The tourism department is planning more than 25 museums to showcase the Muziris Heritage, of which 11 are ready and will be open for public by the end of this month. 

 

The spice route was the most historic trade route ever navigated by mankind and Kerala is planning to connect 31 countries in Europe, Asia and Far East creating a new experience. This project already got support from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). 

 

 

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MUNNAR - STRAWBERRY HILLS OF KERALA

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Munnar the most popular hill station of South India is soon going to bloom with different colors. Recently around 3,500 farmers have come up with the initiative to cultivate strawberry as a high value crop to make the benefit out of this commercial cultivation.

The farmers are looking for better returns with the cultivation and the initiative is being initiated in Idukki because of the cold climate, which offer conducive environment for the crop. The Kerala state Horticultural Mission has drawn up a pilot project to cultivate strawberry in 750 acres and have the plan to extent the project to some other states soon by providing the facilities of mist irrigation facility. In Nelliampathy few planters have already started the initiative earlier and they are successful in doing it.  

Director, KSHM, K.Prathapan said Rs 6 crore has been designed for the value additional and market linkage for farmers. More of all a team of women identified by KSHM will be sent to the Central Food Technological Research Institute for training in fruit processing. On the other side Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council Keralam has planned to organize the farmers into societies. 

Cold storage revived

Cold storage set up by the Horticorp at Munnar 11 years has been revived for the project. Under this project the unprocessed fruits will be transported to Kochi in refrigerated trucks and sold through shopping malls. Mr. Mahanan also said the strawberry would be sold under the brand with the caption ‘safe to eat’.

The project will start very soon as by the first week of September, the planting will start. Planting materials will be procured from qualified nurseries in North India.

KSHM also has the plan to promote homestead cultivation which is ideal for farming in the mild winter regions. This project will be taken up in few places of Idukki to convert the Idukki region into fruit belt. KSHM has planned to distribute at least 10 saplings to each household. 

 

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Political Influence Over Kerala Tourism Sector

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Tourism industry of Kerala is really finding hard times to cop up with the upcoming events of election as all the channels have shifted their focus to broadcast the ballot battles between the national and regional party.

As the major economic grounds of the state depends on the state tourism and under such prospect the dearth of development activities, welfare schemes and rising pollution are really creating drama beside that such features are acting as an add-on for upcoming polls.

 

As per the authorities the federal government is really not doing any sufficient work to modulate the infrastructure since the tourist hay days are marching their way it is very important for the government to arrange the lines.

According to P K Sanjeev Kumar it is tourism workers who provides an opportunity for exchequer to earn foreign currency but the government in its response is not doing anything to aid them which in turn would lead to exclusion of due returns.

Strict government rules, tough competition in sectors are really asking the houseboat operators to think of something else and above that global recession have really asked the tourism agency to feel the heat of such situation.

Houseboats which can be consider as the sole attraction of the Kerala backwaters are lying idle and more of all it has become more than a liabilities for an owners to cop up with the same.

Autodrivers here are reserve for an upcoming poll and under such situation there is no one to communicate our problem. As per Visnu the communication is the main thing required here and we are in demand of quick and easy transportation.

The recession in order to understand must be trace by 70% dip of foreign tourist and what’s more amazing is advocate Nassar Tayyamadom, who is the state president of tourism workers is really unaware regarding the problems.

Under such circumstances the field workers like houseboat owners, managers of resort and entrepreneurs have received mass support from the UDF and it is very impressive to understand that they are showing immense governance potential.

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ELECTION POLL Vs KERALA TOURISM

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 Being a hub of Political power blocks Kerala has always been a centre of windfall during the time of election. Tour operators from Alappazuha and the states backwater tourism are really feeling the pressure of election prospects.

Perhaps the reason behind it being a centre of magnitude is many of the top leaders like A K Anthony, Vayalar Ravi and others bends their way from the shore of Kerala beside that other historical movements and dates has really affected the arena of political phenomenon.

Ever since the day the election made its way the state has become a centre of activity and while preaching and campaigning the course they did not even spared the estuary of Vembanad and other region.

Flags and festoons unfurled around motorbikes where campaigner from every party fits in their loudspeaker within the water bodies and Kuttanad Paddy field to preach the word of promises to ensure as many votes as they could.

An exclusive campaign within the site of lakes and water body’s acts more like a festival because the campaigner here starts the proceeding in the mooring and surrounds the site till the late night. Capitalising the view of traveller entrepreneurs and tour operators are trying to endorse the occasion through marketing and understanding the point of the explorer from across the world who a

 

Gorge Thomas one of the leading tour operators who have already managed the packages for their tourist while speaking on political call said the traveller really wish to see how things picks up during the call of election but he also said that the campaigner would envy the walks of the traveller regarding the process.

Tomy Pulikkattil, said during the peak of election around 150 travellers would make their safe landing within the shore of the state. While speaking in context of other tour operators he said they add more packages which includes the meeting with the candidate and arrangement of tour within the major contesting constituencies.

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