{"id":6632,"date":"2010-06-25T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2010-06-25T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T05:03:00","slug":"kerala-tourism-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6632","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Tourism takes off !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RTnywnqwc9c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It was Walter Mendis, the Corporate Creative Director of Mudra, who gave Kerala the name &#8221; God&#8217;s own Country&#8221;. He meant Kerala is as beautiful as the Lord made it, bearing on every feature the unmistakable stamp of the great Original Creative Artist !<\/p>\n<p>Kerala is amongst the top 40 destinations in the world. National Geographic is of the view that she is amongst the top ten !<\/p>\n<p>More than 13 K cr has come in and more than 5,98,000 foreign tourists visited this  beautiful state out of a total of 8.2 million tourists.  This 131130 cr is  7.7%  of Kerala&#8217;s total income.<\/p>\n<p>Kerala has a lot to offer. Houseboat Tourism, particularly in the Venice of the East, Alleppey, Beach Tourism, because of the 586 km coastline, River Tourism, Mountain Tourism &amp;  Monsoon Tourism, because of the heavy rainfalls that grace Kerala !<\/p>\n<p>Kerala is just 1.1% of India ! Yet, she hosts 22% of 47 K plants, 35% of varieties of fish and 210 types of oceanic creatures. She has 700 kms of the Western Ghats &amp; 586 kms of coastline. She receives 2000 mm rains. You will find different types of people belonging to different civilisations as she is multi-cultural and multi-religious. That is how Kerala becomes the Lord&#8217;s own country !<\/p>\n<p>The foreigners say that &#8221; well kept beaches, good people, tasty and mouth watering cuisine, spirituality and Ayurveda &#8221; are the hallmarks of Kerala !<\/p>\n<p>Beaches are a fascination for tourists and the four out of the five Districts which receive the influx of tourist have beaches ( Trichur, Trivandurm, Ernakulam, Alleppey and Idukki ).<\/p>\n<p>Some fishing villages have been defined as Fishermen&#8217;s Village. Farm Tourism is also on the rise !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Walter Mendis, the Corporate Creative Director of Mudra, who gave Kerala the name &#8221; God&#8217;s own Country&#8221;. He meant Kerala is as beautiful as the Lord made it, bearing on every feature the unmistakable stamp of the great Original Creative Artist ! Kerala is amongst the top 40 destinations in the world. National &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerala Tourism takes off !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}