There is immense potential of developing tourism in Kerala and the State should make full use of it, the Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Parliamentary Affairs, Ms Suryakantha Patil said on Monday.
Inaugurating a seminar “Coalition government - its merit and demerits,” organised by the Nehru Peace Foundation, she said that Kerala could follow the example of Singapore, a tiny nation, which had taken tourism development to a high level.
“Kerala can become the richest State in the country, if it taps the tourism potential available to the maximum,” she said, adding that spices, coconut and the backwaters of Kerala are well known across the globe.
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