{"id":14738,"date":"2013-11-09T13:23:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T07:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=14738"},"modified":"2013-11-09T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T07:53:24","slug":"kerala-named-among-worlds-10-best-family-destinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kerala-named-among-worlds-10-best-family-destinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala named among world\u2019s 10 best family destinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lonely Planet<\/strong>, the world\u2019s largest travel guide book publisher has named<strong><em> Kerala among the world&#8217;s 10 best destinations for taking the family along for a holiday in 2014<\/em>.<\/strong> \u00a0The Lonely Planet&#8217;s award was announced at the World Travel Mart (WTM) in London, a leading travel trade event attended by industry representatives from around the world.<\/p>\n<h3>News Tagged Tourism:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-flower-show-slated-for-january\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trivandrum Flower Show slated for January<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/hire-forest-department-elephants-for-rs-12000\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hire forest department elephants for Rs 12,000<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first three are Denmark, Thailand and Belize. The other child-friendly destinations ideal for the family in the list are New York City, Hawaii, Prague, Italy and Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intensity of travel in India could put you off taking a trip here en famille, but Kerala is a family-friendly version: more laid-back than other regions, greener, slower paced. There are also lots of national parks for elephant spotting, palm-fringed beaches and boat trips along the lush canals of the backwaters,\u201d said Lonely Planet.<\/p>\n<p>Kerala Tourism Director, S. Harikishore, who led an official delegation to London, received the award. The Kerala Tourism delegation to London included 12 co-exhibitors representing the hospitality industry from the State. \u201cThe World Travel Mart presented us with a significant opportunity to target for higher growth figures in foreign tourist arrivals,\u201d Harikishore said.<\/p>\n<p>Kerala pavilion which was themed on Ayurveda was a major crowd puller at the WTM. Former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes was among those who visited the Kerala pavilion at the London Mart. Jonty Rhodes is currently, the brand ambassador for South African Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>The Travel Mart had begun on Monday and concluded on Thursday. At least 5,000 exhibitors, representing 184 countries, attended this year\u2019s World Travel Mart. The UK is the most important market for Kerala, accounting for nearly 1.5 lakh tourist arrivals in the State last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonely Planet, the world\u2019s largest travel guide book publisher has named Kerala among the world&#8217;s 10 best destinations for taking the family along for a holiday in 2014. \u00a0The Lonely Planet&#8217;s award was announced at the World Travel Mart (WTM) in London, a leading travel trade event attended by industry representatives from around the world. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-14738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-tourism","tag-kerala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738"}],"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=14738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}