Most hotels and resorts booked to capacity for festival season After a hiatus, Munnar is witnessing heavy tourist inflow with most hotels and resorts booked to capacity. The Christmas/ New Year season, aided by a drop in mercury level, is attracting tourists. An official at the District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) in Munnar says there is a spurt in tourist inflow from December 20. Normally, Munnar witnesses a high turnout from December 20 to January 5. Most hotels and resorts have been fully booked from December 25 to 27. The number of daytime tourists is also on the rise. These are positive trends indicative of normalization of tourism activities at the hill station, he says. “The number of vehicles parked on roadsides from Kanthallur to Munnar points to the revi...

In order to overcome the deep slump in demand due to the pandemic, the Kerala houseboats are offering all kinds of discounts and schemes to customers. The segment of Kerala Tourism industry which was struggling to meet the demand of customers till last year is facing an entirely different scenario this year. The houseboat operators are not only offering discounts up to 50% on their normal tariffs, but are also offering the book-now-and-travel-later kind of schemes to attract customers. The market situation is quite unprecedented, concedes Jobin Akkarakalam, owner of Spice Routes Luxury Cruises, and Vice President of Kerala Houseboat Owners Federation. However, he sees the demand picking up gradually for houseboats during Christmas and the New Year. “Families largely prefer h...