"Though houseboats have been an integral part of our tourist attraction programme, the idea of a houseboat village was born out of necessity," Kerala's Tourism Director M Sivasankar told Business Standard.
The idea was basically mooted to address the accommodation-crunch likely to hit Kochi when the city becomes a stopover point for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09, a global yacht marathon.
Image: A houseboat anchored beside a church in the backwaters of Alappuzha. Houseboats have always been an integral part of Kerala's tourist attraction. | Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images
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