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Aliyaveettil Travels – Offers car hire and other travel services.
Argo Tours and Travels – Offer travel services, airline ticketing, conducted tours, hotel reservations, car and coach hiring and package tours.
Athira Holidays – Transportation, accommodation, guides, and all other travel related needs of visitors arranged.
Concord Tours – Travel agents and tour operators; site has details of tours offered in the southern states.
Discover Kerala – Offering honeymoon tours, ayurvedic treatments, inner healing, and free trips.
Dream Holidays – IATO approved tour operator offering holiday packages, backwater cruise on houseboats, tree houses stay, and hotel booking.
Excel India Tours – Details of tours to Kerala and neighbouring states.
Galilee Travel And Cargo Agency – Offers packaged tours abroad, including to Dubai, Lakshwadeep, Israel, Nepal.
G.O.C. Holidaymaker – Holidays and tours for budget travellers, backpackers, student and groups. Lodging with families, in houseboats, attend yoga classes, camps, ceremonies.
Greenline Kerala – Offers a range of package tours through the state.
Kalypso Adventures – Adventure and eco tours, wildlife safaris, trekking and camping.
Kumar Taxis – Offers car hire, tours of the state, and other travel related services.
Mystikal India – Offers travel agency services and bookings. Website includes details of local attractions and facilities.
Sundale Vacations – Offering tour packages to South India.
TourKerala – Provides a number of tour packages. Website includes package descriptions and local information.
Tours Amasco – Offer tour packages to different destinations in Kerala.
Travels Kerala – Offers online hotel reservations, tours of Kerala, information on the districts of Kerala.
Uno Tours – Tour operators from the backwaters and beauty of Kerala.
Verma Travels – Offer tour packages to destinations in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Visit India Travel – Offers tours, hotel bookings and transport services in Kerala. Includes company profile, tourist information.

Allison Travels – Offers flights and holiday packages to India, and particularly to Kerala. Based in New York, USA.
The Blue Yonder – Provides a number of holidays and excursions in the state, associated with conservation and ecological themes.
CEL Tours & Travels Pvt. Ltd. – Heritage tour packages in Kerala, other features include ground handling services, conference packages, hotel reservations.
Cherish Kerala – Services include a tour plan with a given budget. Also gives information on festivals, cuisine and ayurveda. [Requires Flash]
Cocohol – Offers a number of tours in the state. Includes some brief accounts of the main attractions in the state. Located in Kachani, Tiruvanantapuram.
Glad Tours – Describes and provides a number of tour packages in the state.
Hidden Kerala – Offer tour packages to various destinations in Kerala.
Holidays Kerala – Offer tour packages to various destinations in the state.
Kerala Greenery – Information and photographic guide to tourism in Kerala. Offers tour packages.
Kerala Tourism Development Corporation – A travel services company, despite the name.
Kerala Tours – Organises tours within Kerala as well as medical holidays for dentistry and eye treatments.
keralatourmakers – Tour operators specially for leisure, business or ayurveda visitors.
Off The Beaten Track Pukka Holidays – UK based agent offering trips and tours to Kerala, and also southern India.
Palmland Tours – Offers tailor made tours and media assistance in Kerala and South India. Includes tours offered, photographs, and packages available.
Plantation Bungalow – Offering visitor accommodation in historic and plantation houses while touring the state.
Signature Holidays – Offering specialised culture, pilgrimage, ayurveda and health tour packages in the state, and the west of the country.
Toruromark – Offers a number of trekking holidays. Descriptions of the holidays available in the state. Thekkady.
Voyage Peninsula – Offering a range of tours of Kerala. Includes details of tourist attractions. Located in Thiruvalla.

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    Formed on 1st April 1958 carving areas of erstwhile Travancore-Kochi-Malabar kingdoms the Ernakulam district consists of the mainland Ernakulam, the man made Willington Island, Mattanchery, Fort Kochi, world’s most populous area of Vypeen Island, Bolghatty Palace etc. An important tourist destination and also the commercial capital is Ernakulam. Most of the city’s commercial centers and shops are located in Ernakulam.

    From time immemorial Arabs, Chinese, Dutch, British and Portuguese seafarers followed the sea route to Kochi and left impressions in the town. Erayanarkulam means abode of Lord Shiva’s. The present Ernakulam District include Paravur, Aluva, Kochi, Kanayannoor, Muvattupuzha, Kunnathunadu, Kothamangalam Taluks which come under Fortkochi and Muvattupuzha Revenue Sub Division. The borders of the district are the Arabian Sea in the West, Thrissur District in the North, Idukki District in the East and Alappuzha and Kottayam District in the South. Majority of islands in Kerala are in Ernakulam district which was from different parts of old Cochin-Travancore-Malabar area.

    St. Francis` Church, Fort Cochin
    This Church was built by the Portuguese in 1510 AD and is believed to be the first church built by the Europeans in India. Vasco-da -Gama was buried here. Fourteen years later, his mortal remains were taken to Portugal.

    The Hill Palace Museum
    This museum displays the erstwhile prosperity of the royal family of Cochin, including the King`s throne and crown. You can also visit accessories of royalty like majestic beds, paintings, carvings and samples of epigraphy. Tripunithura is also known for the nearby Chottanikara Temple and the Tripunithura Poornathraessa Temple.

    Chennamangalam
    Located 5 Kms from north Paravur, north-west of Ernakulam lies the Chennamangalam Chennamangalam presents a rare geographical combination of rivers, seven inlets, a hillock and a vast expanse of green plains. Surrounded by rivers on all 3 sides, Chennamangalam was the house of the well-known Achans of Paliam who were hereditary prime ministers to the Raja of Cochin Kottayil Kovilakam.

    Jewish Synagogue, Mattancherry
    Built in 1568 AD, the great scrolls of the Old Testament, the copper plates in which the grants of privilege made by the Cochin rulers were recorded and the exquisite Chinese hand-painted tiles arc are worth visiting. Two hundred years old, no two tiles are alike.

    Malayattur
    47 km from Cochin is famous for the Catholic Church on the 609 m high Malayattur Hill dedicated to St. Thomas. Thousands of devotees join the annual festival – Malayattur Perunnal (March/April).

    Wellington Islands
    Named after Lord Wellington, one of the British Viceroys; Wellington Islands are Kochi’s famous islands. It is a man made island situated between Ernakulam and Mattancherry worth vsiting.

    Kodungalloor
    It was a famed sea-port on the west coast in ancient tomes, where St. Thomas is supposed to have landed in 52 AD.


 


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