KERALA: A WET BEAUTY IN THE MONSOON
KERALA: A WET BEAUTY IN THE MONSOON www.ktexplorer.com/kerala_wet/ Everything about tourism is perception driven and perceptions influenced by industry needs. Local climactic conditions, play a significant role in deciding the tourist traffic to a place and based on the resultant convenience and comfort levels, that location is assigned “an ideal season”, referred to as " tourist season ”. Based on “ideal seasons” tourism Professionals create “tourist calendars” to help people plan visits. Tourist inflow to "The God's own country", accordingly, thins out during the monsoons. South- West Monsoon normally reaches Kerala shores in the first week of June. This coincides with the middle of the Malayalam month "Edavam" (May-June), Therefore the south-west monsoon is referred to as, "Edava Pathi"(Pathi meaning Half), in Kerala. Edavam" is followed by the months of "Mithunam" (June-July) and then "Karkidakam...