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Steps to tap Kannur's tourism potential

By Our Staff Reporter

KANNUR SEPT. 30. The district's heritage tourism, adventure tourism and eco-tourism potential are now being highlighted with people's representatives, local bodies and various Government departments, especially the Forest Department, making efforts to identify potential resources for tourism development.

The St. Angelo's Fort, Arakkal Palace at Kannur, Gundert Bungalow, English Fort at Thalassery, Paithalmala, situated 4,500 feet above the sea level here on the Kerala-Karnataka border, and the Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary are now being focused for development as tourism spots without any huge investment.

While the project for developing Paithalmala into a hill station is already in progress, emphasis is now being placed on its heritage and eco-tourism aspects.

The projects for giving a facelift to the dilapidated Arakkal Palace, seat of the erstwhile Muslim principality, and the Iritty eco-tourism project, aimed at utilising the resources including the Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary, are examples of this emphasis.

The Assembly committee for tourism that held a sitting here on Monday instructed the District Tourism Promotion Council and Public Works Department officials to prepare a list of heritage tourism spots in the district, including old buildings in Thalassery, Gundert Bungalow and Thalassery fort to develop them as heritage sites.

Efforts should also be made to construct local roads to Paithalmala, the committee said.

The committee chairman, A. Sujanapal, said that the committee would submit to the Government all the new projects of tourism development in the district.

The DFO, K. K. Chandran, and the DTPC secretary, E. C. Raveendran, were also present.

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