No safety equipment, including life jackets, was found on the vessel. Incidents involving houseboats, the mascot of Kerala Tourism, have claimed at least five lives in Alappuzha between May and ...

Though Kerala is considered ... scheme for classification of houseboats operated in the backwaters of the State. The decision was taken after it was found that no houseboat could be classified ...

After a long wait of seven months, the houseboat industry in ... been drained completely because of no business. We did raise our concerns with the Kerala government and the report is that all ...

Despite the grand schemes of the Tourism Department, which aims to tap the rich potential of Kerala ... the boat to ply despite its many violations, Salim clarified that no licence was issued.