Kerala offers investment opportunities in multiple areas of economic activity. Climate, Culture, Human Resource, Geography sets kerala apart from rest of India. These are the same reasons why the people world over are interested in kerala. Their interest may not be just investment, it may be sight seeing, cultural research, education, treatment of disease etc.

During the past few years kerala witnessed an unprecedented economic growth due investments in IT, Media, Real estate, Health care, Tourism and hospitality industry. Return on investment in all major sectors is predicted to be around 20%.

Kerala is blessed with scenic beauty of Arabian sea, back waters, rain forest etc. When this combined with a pleasant climate gives the picture of tourism potential of the state. The tourism potential mentioned above is just due to natural beauty of the state.

Kerala has a mixed cultural inheritance with dominant Hindu native culture. Christians and Muslims form a considerable section of population, with both the religions having roots to the first century of its inception. Temples of Sabarimala and Guruvayur are two major pilgrim centers that attract millions of devotees from all over the world. Kerala is famous for kalaripayattu - a martial arts form, Kathakali - an ancient theatrical performing art form, mohiniyattam - a dance form originated from kerala.

Kerala has its own ancient architectural science called tatchu-shastram, which has played a major role in designing of all major ancient buildings including temples, palaces and ordinary households in kerala.

The orginal medicinal wing practiced in kerala is called ayurveda, and kerala is famous for its ayurvedic practitioners, medicine used is mainly herbal extracts and this form of treatment is multifaceted one. Ayurvedic treatment is rejuvenating and is favoured by many western tourist.

Kerala is the home for many Hindu vedic scholars and philosophers. There are many scholars in cultural and religious arena who are visited by people across the globe to get trained in hindu philosophy, vedas, astrology, ayurveda, tatchu-shastra, Karnatic music, performing arts etc.

The Education Sector of Kerala requires special mention as it is the first state to achieve literacy 100% in india. There are many reputed institution that gave birth to well known professionals in the field of applied sciences, management, Finance and economics, health care etc.

Total input of students into engineering graduate course is around 20,000 with an similar number passing out from arts and science colleges in the state. Thus in a single year about 40,000 students complete their graduation. But the number of input to post graduate course is just 1/10 of output from graduate colleges.

Kerala is the land of well known doctors /ayurvedic practitioners. people from all over the world are their patients. This history of health care combined with low treatment cost, international quality diagnosis and treatment facility brings in large no. patients from Maldives, Srilanka, Arab countries and many other developed and developing countries. Specialists who returned after their services and specializations abroad have contributed to the good image of doctors of kerala.

As you may have made out, Kerala has an immense potential for tourism and allied services in following segments cultural, both allopathic and ayurvedic healthcare and research,environment, non conventional and conventional streams of education.

Investment in higher education(post graduation and doctoral levels) sectors including Science, Management, Engineering, Medical Streams can bring in ROI of at least 15%. This is one of the areas that is going to witness unprecedented growth. These institution may have students from all over the world, may even change kerala to educational destination of the world. Kerala is already having lot of students from many developing countries in its premier educational and research institutions.

IT in kerala state is one of the hottest investment sectors, investment made are mainly in IT/ITES/Infrastructure. Trivandrum technopark is the dream destination of many IT investors due to readily available land, built up space, Human resources, Location, Low cost and infrastructure. Over 100 companies are functioning from Trivandrum technopark campus alone, employing around 14,000 people in IT/ITES. Trivandrum technopark is the oldest in the country. Depending on your expertise and area of business the ROI varies it can be 20-100%. Click here to read Trivandrum Technopark - CTO's Dream Land.

IT infrastructural investment has been done till date by kerala state government, But now they are inviting external agencies to build up whole IT cities, in view of explosive growth in IT sector. The vision of IT city is a city where you work and live with all amenities, including clubs, cinema halls, educational institutions, hospitals, supermarkets, Hotels conference halls, convention centers, Network, telephone,Road, Electricity distribution, water supply etc.

The mineral wealth of kerala provides yet another investment opportunity,One such mineral for such large scale industrial processing is ilmenite.

Hoping to see you at trivandrum in the near future as a potential investor, a tourist, a patient, a student or a technocrat.

For more information please see official website of Kerala government