Chopsticks On Kerala Tourism Pie Stir Common Chords.

(From Financial Express)

Chinese chopsticks have landed on the God's Own Country pie, at once throwing open a whopping business dreamfield and stirring over thousand-year-old chords in the Kerala's cultural psyche. Apart from 20 Hong Kong tour operators, over 30 Chinese travel people have signed up for the second edition of the three-day Kerala Travel Mart (KTM), set to start in Kochi from October 3. This is the country's biggest buyer-seller mart in tourism. From the Kerala-China pepper-swapping days, immortalised by the Chinese fishing net on Kerala coasts, to the red-blooded revolutionary era, the two comrades have been thick as thieves throughout the chequered …