{"id":12777,"date":"2013-07-31T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T09:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=12777"},"modified":"2013-07-31T22:58:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T17:28:30","slug":"world-class-tourist-information-centre-at-kovalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/world-class-tourist-information-centre-at-kovalam\/","title":{"rendered":"World-class tourist information centre coming up at Kovalam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourist information centre at <strong>Kovalam<\/strong> is all set to get a major makeover. Kerala State Tourism Department will facelift the existing <strong>Tourist information Centre<\/strong> to a world-class level. The work on the new project has already started.<\/p>\n<p>A touch screen KIOSK will be installed at the centre with an aim to provide integrated information about the place to the international tourists visiting Kovalam. The walls of the information centre will covered with <strong>&#8216;Mural paintings<\/strong>&#8216; which shows the tradition of Kerala and also LCD TV&#8217;s will be installed.<\/p>\n<p>The project also envisages a souvenir shop outside the information centre where travellers can buy a wide range of attractive and unique handmade items. For this, the office of the Information office has been demolished and a new office with air-condition system will be constructed. The project is carried out at a cost of <strong>Rs40 lakhs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile it is also reported that government funds are misused in the name of development. It is said that tourist information centre already has enough facilities and face lift is not needed.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/rs13-60-crore-sanctioned-for-kovalam-beach-development\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rs 13.60 crore for the development of Kovalam<\/a> <\/strong>considering the importance of Kovalam as a national and international tourist centre. The development package is intended to make place more tourist-friendly and for the development of tourist amenities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourist information centre at Kovalam is all set to get a major makeover. Kerala State Tourism Department will facelift the existing Tourist information Centre to a world-class level. The work on the new project has already started. A touch screen KIOSK will be installed at the centre with an aim to provide integrated information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[280,88],"class_list":["post-12777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kerala-tourism","tag-kovalam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}