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Now travellers will be welcomed with vibrant art towers at Thiruvananthapuram airport

July 3, 2025July 4, 2025cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

The gateway art towers at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Travellers arriving at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport are in for a visual treat. In a vibrant celebration of Kerala’s rich heritage, the gateway towers at the Chakka overbridge have been transformed into dazzling art towers, each narrating a unique cultural story. Blending tradition […]

Extension of Kochi Water Metro service proposed in developing Kadambrayar as a tourism destination

June 21, 2025June 21, 2025cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Kochi Water Metro’s boats operatings from its High Court terminal. Fle phto | Photo Credit: The Hindu Extending the Kochi Water Metro service using feeder boats from Kakkanad to Kadambrayar in Ernakulam for sustainable, efficient, and eco-friendly transit for tourists and Infopark professionals figured among the recommendations included in a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for […]

An electric boat that takes the sustainable tourism route in Kochi’s Kadamakkudy islands

December 20, 2024December 20, 2024cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

It is a calm day for a boat ride, the breeze is a gentle caress. Conditions are ideal on the almost-winter-like day. The waters of the Periyar around Kadamakkudy are still, glass-like. At a distance one can see poles that make up Chinese fishing nets as they mark the outline of the river. The silence […]

A mission to turn Kerala’s Kumarakom, neighbouring villages into women-friendly destinations

January 13, 2024January 13, 2024cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Women tourists taking a boat ride through the interiors of Kumarakom. At her office room attached to a single-storey house in Maravanthuruth, a village that abuts Vembanad Lake, Ambily M. Soman, who runs an ethnic kitchen and a women-only travel group, has been busy charting a schedule for the next couple of months. A few […]

Onam celebrations of the Vallachira panchayat in Thrissur District of Kerala is now a showcase for tourists

August 25, 2023August 25, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Vallachira Panchayath Onagosham The Onam celebrations of Vallachira—‘Vallachira Panchayath Onagosham’— is set to go global. A Responsible Tourism Company, The Blue Yonder, along with Kerala Tourism is pivoting the festivities of the village, 15 kms from Thrissur, as a showcase for travellers. A pre Onam festival held in July 2023, had 25 vloggers and industry stakeholders […]

Bioluminescent nights in Kerala’s Kumbalangi

March 15, 2023March 16, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Bioluminescence witnessed in Kumbalangi | Photo Credit: Vivek Udaya In Kochi, all roads currently lead to Kumbalangi. The postcard-pretty fishing village, approximately 15 kilometres from Ernakulam, has been hosting a natural neon party. The vast stretches of shrimp farms lined along with the backwaters have been shimmering in bioluminescence, a phenomenon that makes it glow […]

Make effective use of story telling, new media for tourism marketing, say experts

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Authentic, engaging and meaningful story telling that aroused the curiosity of travellers and made emotional connect with captivating visual content held the key to wooing tourists in the age of new media publicity, said expert speakers at the fourth International Conference on Tourism Technology (ICTT) held here on Friday. Even as conventional advertising is on […]

Asia’s yes, but is Kerala School Kalolsavam world’s biggest arts festival of school children?

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

A young girl takes a selfie with the audience of the ongoing 61st Kerala School Kalolsavam, the State School Arts Festival, at the Captain Vikram Maidan in Kozhikode on Friday | Photo Credit: Sakeer Hussain Asia’s biggest. Kerala School Kalolsavam, the State School Arts Festival, has been described thus for decades. The numbers could actually […]

Five high-end tourist vessels ready for launch in Kochi backwaters

November 12, 2022November 12, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Competition to grab the attention of cruise-loving tourists is getting intense in the Kochi backwaters, what with the Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation Corporation (KSINC) and the State Water Transport Department (SWTD) gearing up to launch three high-end, sea-going tourist vessels in the November-January tourist season. A couple of private players too have readied their […]

A 90-year-old solo woman traveller’s tryst with Kerala

September 14, 2022September 14, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Kerala is second home for 90-year-old UK citizen Daphne Clara Richards, a solo woman traveller who arrived in Kochi on Tuesday on her 31 st visit. A hard-core lover of the State and its people, she has been spending over a month each year in the State since 2002, residing mostly at a popular resort […]

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