Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Kerala to attract US tourists


A delegation led by Kerala tourism minister A P Anil Kumar held roadshows in California and participated in the New York Times Travel Fair. For the one week journey which started on 7th January, he was accompanied by a delegation comprising of chief secretary Jiji Thomson, tourism secretary G. Kamalavardhana Rao and 10 industry stakeholders, in an effort to boost tourism to the state, and also attract investment.

Kerala’s choice destinations and tourism products was showcased and investment opportunities were presented to CEOs of selected multi-national companies at Silicon Valley Corporation.
In 2014, Kerala attracted 77,616 U.S. visitors from the US, which was followed by United Kingdom, France and Germany. It was 8.41 per cent of the total foreign tourist arrivals.


In the same year, tourist arrivals from the United States to India were 11,18,983 and the share of 14.57 per cent was the highest among the 10 top source countries of foreign tourist arrivals.

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