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Princess Gouri Parvathi Bayi of the erstwhile Travancore royal family inaugurated the new corporate office complex of Kerala Travels Interserve, the State's first and leading travel agency, here on Sunday.
Prominent film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan opened the company's corporate office housed in the new building. Kerala Travels Interserve (KTI) is celebrating 50 years of its successful journey of taking Kerala all over the world.
JUBILEE FETE
The golden jubilee celebrations, titled KT@50, were declared open by former diplomat, Mr T. P. Sreenivasan.
Three golden jubilee initiatives were also launched at the inaugural function to mark the next phase of growth, a company spokesperson said here.
Mr K. Jayakumar, Additional Chief Secretary, launched www.ktworld247.com , the online portal blending real-time and virtual travel solutions.
Dr V. Venu, Secretary, Tourism, inaugurated KTI's ecological initiative, ‘Wave' (Wetland Assessment Visual Expedition), a project that seeks to spread awareness of the State's ecological systems.
KTI will partner with the International League of Conservation Photographers and the Madhavan Pillai Foundation for Conservation to visually document the wetlands of Kerala.
VISUAL DOCUMENT
This will include landscapes, flora and fauna, agriculture, bird life and migration, fish and other aquatic life, fishing, culture, rituals, customs and traditions.
KTI will bring these before the people of Kerala through TV shows, exhibitions and coffee table books, the spokesperson said.
Separately, Mr Cherian Philip, Chairman, Kerala Tourism Development Corporation, announced an innovative space training programme, ‘SauraYaathrika', for students . This will be conducted in association with the US National Aeronautical and Space Administration and Science Centre, Singapore.
The camp will enable students to experience zero-gravity environment that astronauts work in. The participants will be put through a curriculum modelled on astronaut training.
MUSIC CD
A compact disk titled ‘Soul of Kerala', containing a compilation of original music scores created for the Kerala Travel Mart by Mr K. C. Chandrahasan, Managing Director, KTI, was released by Dr V. Venu and received by Mr K. Jayakumar, who is the lyricist.
Kerala Travels was founded in 1959 by Col G. V. Raja of the Travancore royal family and Mr P. G. C. Pillai, to render professional and reliable travel services to those in the State.
This was a joint endeavour of a global travel enthusiast in Col Raja and an experienced travel industry professional in Mr Pillai who was then (1950s) working with Scandinavian Airlines in Mumbai.
A six-member team to start with, the team has since grown to an organisation with international presence in more than 85 countries.
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