Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 17 (IANS) Kerala Tourism Tuesday launched a month-long video sequencing contest that puts people's technical skills and creative abilities to test and winners can look for exciting prizes.
"In this era of internet and smart phones, websites have become one of the most popular media for cost effective tourism promotion. This contest aims to attract maximum participants from various destinations," said Kerala Tourism Minister A.P. Anil Kumar.
He also added that it was a matter of pride for all that Kerala Tourism website gets the maximum visits among the tourism websites of India and comes within the top ten positions in website traffic among all countries of Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
A total of 30 videos, each of two minutes duration will be created for the contest, highlighting diverse aspects of Kerala.
Each video will be then divided into six portions of 20 second each and uploaded to the site.
These divided portions will be in jumbled order.
The contestant will have to login to the contest page, www.keralatourism.org, where they will have to rearrange the jumbled portions of the video into a single continuous sequence which accurately matches with that of the original video.
"Tourism promotion is an area where there is heavy competition and each destination is vying to increase traffic to their website. In this context, the video sequencing contest will serve as a major promotional tool for the tourism department," said Kerala Tourism director, P.I. Sheik Pareeth.
The competition will run till March 17.
Three bumper prizes will be given away at the end of the contest.
The first is a seven-day-six-night Kerala package for two, with economy class one-way flight tickets from anywhere in the world.
The second bumper prize is a six-day-five-night Kerala package for two.
The third bumper prize is a five-day-four-night Kerala package for two.
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