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Kerala aims to take Onam celebrations to global stage

September 13, 2022716 Views

As the week-long Onam celebrations organised by the Kerala Government drew to a close this evening with a colourful cultural pageantry in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram, Tourism Minister PA Mohammed Riyas said the Tourism Department will make all efforts to take the event to the global stage by planning it big on the lines of Spain’s La Tomatina festival next year. Inaugurating the valedictory function of Onam celebrations at Nishagandhi, Kanakakunnu Palace Grounds, Riyas said by giving a global dimension to the festival the state will be able to attract more foreign tourists during the season and ensure their active participation in cultural activities. A view of the cultural procession organised to mark the finale of the Onam celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. ...

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Kerala Tourism’s Onam fest inaugurated

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September 6, 2022768 Views

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday inaugurated the week-long Onam celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram, setting the stage for presenting before a wider audience a variety of classical, folk, ethnic and popular art forms in multiple venues in the state capital and districts across the state in the next seven days. Opening the state-wide celebrations organised by the Kerala Tourism Department at a grand function at Nishagandhi, Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds here, he described Onam as an enduring symbol of hope, resilience and resurgence which has an added significance this time as humanity is recovering from the disruptions caused by the Covid-19. “Onam this time comes with promise and hope. In the last two years, humanity had passed through an unprecedented situation t...

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Vijayan says Kerala Tourism on path of revival

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August 14, 20211148 Views

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday inaugurated the week-long virtual Onam celebrations organized by the state Tourism Department, noting that the government has initiated effective measures to resume the pandemic-hit tourism activities in a safe and risk-free manner. Stating that the tourism sector of Kerala has showed tremendous resilience by outliving back-to-back crises since 2016, the Chief Minister said “as long as the Covid-19 pandemic prevails we have to live with that situation and develop tourism along with it.” “We have put in place arrangements for revival of tourism in a safe and risk-free manner, where vaccinated people will receive vaccinated tourists. We have also made serious efforts to keep tourism destinations pollution-free, which have yielded go...