{"id":15252,"date":"2013-12-12T21:01:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2013-12-12T21:01:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:31:02","slug":"new-tourist-facilitation-centre-at-parassala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/new-tourist-facilitation-centre-at-parassala\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tourist Facilitation Centre at Parassala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A modern Tourist Facilitation Centre set up by Kerala Tourism for serving the tourists and travellers will be inaugurated at Karali, near Parassala. \u00a0Tourism Minister A.P. Anil Kumar will inaugurate the centre in the presence of Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor and Minister for Health V.S. Sivakumar.<\/p>\n<p>With the commissioning of the Facilitation Centre, a long-pending demand of travellers for a drive-in tourist facilitation centre has been fulfilled. Rs 1.08 crore Facilitation Centre will take care of the needs of those travelling to and from Kanyakumari.<\/p>\n<p>Tourist Facilitation Centre spreads across 53 cents of land owned by Kerala Tourism, on the side of NH-66. The 4,500 sq ft Centre has been designed in traditional Kerala style architecture and has 2 dining halls, with one of them an air-conditioned, which can accommodate 100 people. The UdayaSurya restaurant at the centre will function from 6 am to 12am. There is also a separate toilet facility and a large parking facility that can even accommodate large vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism Minister will also inaugurate a \u2018Handloom village\u2019 that is being set up on 2.8 hectares at Manchavilakom. The handloom village which has a floor area of 1,500 sq ft will allow visitors to see the entire process of handloom weaving. Sales of handloom textiles and display of products have also been arranged there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Photo: The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modern Tourist Facilitation Centre set up by Kerala Tourism for serving the tourists and travellers will be inaugurated at Karali, near Parassala. \u00a0Tourism Minister A.P. Anil Kumar will inaugurate the centre in the presence of Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor and Minister for Health V.S. Sivakumar. With the commissioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-15252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252"}],"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=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}