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Kerala Tourism wins national award for website content
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 25
Kerala
Tourism was on Wednesday conferred the national Web Ratna Award for 2014
for exemplary e-governance initiative through the internet.
The
Kerala Tourism website (www.keralatourism.org) won the Golden Icon award
in the 'Outstanding Content' category of the Web Ratna Awards,
instituted by the Union government under the ambit of the National
Portal of India.
Kerala Tourism secretary G.Kamala Vardhana Rao
received the award from Union Minister of Communications and Information
Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad in Delhi. The Kerala Tourism website,
designed and maintained by Invis Multimedia, is among the top tourism
portals in the world.
The Web Ratna Awards honour exemplary
e-governance initiatives using the medium of the world wide web. The
winners were chosen by a jury comprising experts from academia, industry
and government.
"This is a recognition of our continuing efforts
to make innovative use of modern technology to remain among the most
favoured destinations in the world," said Kerala Tourism Minister A.P.
Anilkumar.
Launched in 1998, the Kerala Tourism website today receives around 4.2 million visits and 14 million page views annually.
Rich
with text and photographs of high quality, the website is currently
available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian,
Japanese, Arabic and Chinese, besides ten Indian languages including
Hindi and Malayalam.
The Kerala Tourism website has won several
national and international awards, including five National Awards and
the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold award for its innovative
use of information technology to promote tourism across the world.