Thread: Kerala.in, a Kerala Tourism Portal

Please visit Kerala.in - Kerala Hotels - Kerala House Boats - Kerala Taxis - Kerala Homestays - Kerala Tour Packages - Kerala Holidays and let us know your comments!

I think you should drop the "Kerala.in -" prefix in your HTML TITLE.

You have a broken image: Kerala.in - Kerala Hotels - Kerala House Boats - Kerala Taxis - Kerala Homestays - Kerala Tour Packages - Kerala Holidays

The pages load surprisingly quick despite using table based layout.

I think the design is OK, but it's not of a high standard. This doesn't really matter though depending on your goals

First of all, good luck with your site!

The cities in Kerala are buried at the bottom of your website. I think it would better if these were more prominent.

If I were thinking of visiting Kerala, it would be helpful to read more information about what's there is to do in each city.

For people who've never visited Kerala before, it would be nice to have a paragraph or two that talks about the general climate there, local foods, local newspapers, festivals, currency etc. - that's the tourist in me talking.

I agree with alexpooley that the design could be better.

When it comes to building a website, it's a work in progress but hard work will pay off in the end. Good luck.

Nice site - good luck with it!

I'm wondering - how you are getting all the hotel information - is there some affiliate program you are using for this?

Dear alexpooley, ceres & jeff,

thanks for your comments/advice. we will try to add more content to the site.

jeff, regarding hotels data collection, we have marketing team who visit hotels, send letter/contract forms thru couriers/emails and collect data from them. we send 30+ couriers daily and call them next day to return the contract form to us with their approval.

we are using the same method to collect data from real estate builders, for our realestate website, Kerala Real Estate.

Thanks Kerala!

So, how are you making money with that? Do you charge the hotels to be listed? Do you work out individual commissions with each hotel?

Also, do people say "property" or "real estate" in India?

we will get commission from hotels for each bookings thru us. commission rates (5% to 30%).

in kerala we say, real estate.

Originally Posted by kerala

jeff, regarding hotels data collection, we have marketing team who visit hotels, send letter/contract forms thru couriers/emails and collect data from them. we send 30+ couriers daily and call them next day to return the contract form to us with their approval.

That's very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Do you live in Kerala/India? I'm looking to hire Indian staff to sell advertising inventory but I'm in Australia. Any suggestions?

Thanks Kerala!

in kerala we say, real estate

Does that mean in other parts of India it's different?

Originally Posted by alexpooley

I'm looking to hire Indian staff to sell advertising inventory but I'm in Australia. Any suggestions?

In the long run, that's something I'd like to do too, so I second alexpooley's question...