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Wayanad Tourism seeks new opportunities

The tourism department is gearing up to revive the tourism sector, which has been ravaged by stringent restrictions. Tourism revenues have halved in the last financial year due to covid restrictions. In the financial year 2019-2020, DTPC (District Tourism Promotion Council) received revenue of 7.09 crores, but in this financial year 2020-2021 its only 3.85 crores. In this financial year, Tourism centers were opened only in April. The income for that month was only Rs 48 lakh. DTPC reported a net loss of Rs 3.24 crore in the second financial year. It is in this context that projects aimed at ... Read more