Sunday, March 16, 2008

Kerala Tourism comes of Age ! Crosses 10,000 crores !

Income from Kerala tourism touches 11,433 crores, a growth of 32%

These are the figures !

Year Forex Total ( in crores or 10 million)

2001 535.00 4500
2002 705.67 4931
2003 963.37 5935
2004 1286.77 6829
2005 1552.31 7736
2006 1988.4 9126
2007 2640.04 11,433

Dr Deepak Chopra was right ! In the coming years, Ayurveda or Alternative Medicine, will blossom. Medical Tourism has helped a lot in adding to these figures !

Domestic tourists rose from 6.271 million to 6.642 million. Foreign tourists rose 4.28 lakhs to 5.15 lakhs !

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