Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 15 (UNI) In a major initiative to renovate and scale up tourism infrastructure across Kerala, State Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran on Monday inaugurated work on 27 projects at a total cost of Rs 187 crore.
Inaugurating the works through video conferencing, Surendran said Tourism in Kerala is fast picking up, putting behind the setback inflicted by Covid-19. “Visitors are coming to tourism centres, which is a good sign. The newly launched tourism projects get a good number of visitors and it will help the revival of tourism sector,” the Minister said.
Noting that no other government in the history of the state has implemented such a large number of projects in the tourism sector, Surendran said, “If the pandemic crisis hadn’t created a hiccup, we would have been able to complete 90 percent of the projects by now. The work on these 27 projects are being initiated with the aim of completing them within the time frame set for them and there is no backing down from the decision.”