Kerala tops national tourism awards
17 Mar 2006
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- Kerala has bagged Best Performing Tourism State Award for Outstanding achievements in the area of tourism. It has also won Best Maintained Tourism Friendly Monuments Award for Sakthan Thampuran Palace, Kochi.
- Konaseema Tourism Project of Andhra Pradesh has been declared Best Tourism Project in the country while Assam Bengal Navigation Project bagged the award for Most Innovative Tourism Project. Beach Protection Council of Orissa was declared the best NGO working for the promotion of Tourism.
- In the category of hotels, Oberoi Amarvilla, Agra and Taj Residency, Bangalore were declared the best hotels while The Marriot, Delhi got the prize for best Eco-Friendly Hotel and Coconut Lagoon, Kumarakom - Kerala won the best Eco-Friendly Resort.
In all 24 students received awards for the contest 'What Tourism Means to Me' organised by the ministry on the World Tourism Day.
The Incredible India Visa Great Breaks programme was launched in collaboration with Visa International to promote India as preferred travel destination, highlighting private sector's partnership for the promotion of tourism. The programme has an immediate audience of over 277 million visa cardholders in the Asia Pacific region and 1.3 billion cardholders across the world. The programme would provide tourists with direct access to merchants thereby helping them to plan their visit more effectively.
