{"id":27765,"date":"2017-05-22T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=27765"},"modified":"2017-05-22T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:16:25","slug":"kovalam-dip-in-international-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kovalam-dip-in-international-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovalam sees drastic dip in International Tourists! All thanks to years of negligence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to boost the tourism prospects of dying Kovalam, the state government will form a committee called the Kovalam Tourism Destination Management Committee to look after the needs of Kovalam.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalam Tourism Destination Management&#8217;s objective is to improve the infrastructure facilities at the international tourism destination. The committee will improve the amenities at the tourist destinations. Infrastructural issues like lighting and waste treatment will be addressed by the committee.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Infrastructural issues like lighting and waste treatment will be addressed by the committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DTPC along with destination Management Committee, and destination managers appointed under the Green Carpet scheme will jointly monitor the developments at Kovalam.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalam used to be the number one destination in Kerala. However, due to years of negligence and lack of proper infrastructure, Kovalam had lost its glory.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The change in liquor policy too was one of the reasons for the dip in tourist arrivals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It also witnessed a dip in tourist arrivals too. The change in liquor policy too was one of the reasons for the dip in tourist arrivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to boost the tourism prospects of dying Kovalam, the state government will form a committee called the Kovalam Tourism Destination Management Committee to look after the needs of Kovalam. Kovalam Tourism Destination Management&#8217;s objective is to improve the infrastructure facilities at the international tourism destination. The committee will improve the amenities at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[88,452],"class_list":["post-27765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kovalam","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27765"}],"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=27765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27770,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27765\/revisions\/27770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}