The race, which starts from Alicante in Spain on October 4, will be a nine-month odyssey covering 37,000 nautical miles with stopovers at 11 ports. The race will touch Asia for the first time this year through the Kochi port.
Sivasankar said: "As this is an international event, we expect thousands of sports enthusiasts to descend upon Kochi and this is bound to result in a shortage of hotel rooms. As we cannot build hotel rooms overnight, we hit upon the idea to create a houseboat village in the sea to address the shortage."
Image: Yachts compete in a boat race in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. The international race will touch Asia for the first time this year through the Kochi port. | Photograph: Andrew Ross/AFP/Getty Images
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