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Kumarakom

Field	Value
name	Kumarakom
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Kumarkom.jpg
image_caption	Houseboat at Kumarakom lake
pushpin_map	Kerala
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Kerala, India
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	India
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name1	Kerala
subdivision_name2	[Kottayam district	Kottayam
established_title
unit_pref	Metric
population_density_km2	auto
demographics_type1	Languages
demographics1_title1	Official
timezone1	[IST
utc_offset1	+5:30
postal_code_type
registration_plate	KL-05
blank1_name_sec1	Nearest city
blank1_info_sec1	Kottayam
demographics1_info1	Malayalam, English

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Kumarakom is a tourism destination near the city of Kottayam in Kerala, India. It is near the Vembanad Lake, the largest lake in the state of Kerala. In January 2023 The New York Times mentioned Kumarakom's backwater tourism.

Climate

Kumarakom has two monsoons-south west and north east.

Boat race

Boat races include the Nehru Trophy boat race Alappuzha.

In popular culture

Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things is set in Ayemenem or Aymanam village, which adjoins Kumarakom. The explosive success of this novel has given some added tourism impetus to this area. The Taj Garden Retreat hotel complex is centered on a building that is called "History House" in the novel; it was built by British missionary Alfred George Baker, whom the locals called "Kari Saipu" (possibly an elided form of "Baker Sahib"), as in the novel. Four generations of Bakers lived in the house until 1962, speaking Malayalam, and even wearing the mundu. The Baker Memorial School, Kottayam, was started by a daughter of this family in 1925. The Baker family's house is in ruins in the novel, as it was in reality before was developed into a hotel and has been restored by the Taj group. The Ayemenem house, where Arundhati Roy spent part of her childhood (like the twins in the story), can also be visited in the village, which can be reached by boat along the Meenachil river that figures prominently in the story.

Special tourism zone

Kumarakom has been declared a special tourism zone by the Kerala state government, as legislated for by Kerala Tourism Act, 2005.

Awards and honours

It had won top honours including the UNWTO Ulysses Award for Innovation in Public Policy and Governance. The Kumarakom initiative had earlier won the National Award for Best Responsible Tourism Project and also the PATA Grand Award for Environment.

References

(11 March 2010). "Kumarakom: Backwater paradise". The Bangalore Mirror.
"Kumarakom".
(13 January 2023). "Kerala Only Indian State on New York Times list of '52 Places to Go in 2023'".
Flyhigh. "Kumarakom Homestay, Bed and breakfast-Backwater Heritage KUMARAKOM ATTRACTIONS".
"Tourism Act, Kerala Tourism - Kerala Tourism".
[http://media.unwto.org/press-release/2014-01-22/unwto-ulysses-awards-innovation-announced Probe Chandy's role in 1992 Palmolein case] {{Webarchive. link. (5 November 2014 UNWTO, 22 January 2014)

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