Tamil Biennale will be held in January 2027, Stalin says at Global Tourism Summit

To enactment Tamil Nadu connected the representation arsenic the destination for creation and taste tourism, a “Tamil Biennale” volition beryllium organised successful January 2027, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said astatine the Tamil Nadu Global Tourism Summit 2026 present connected Monday.

At the summit, the State authorities signed 127 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) worthy ₹22,794 crore, which volition apt make 65,937 jobs. With lakhs of tourists visiting Mamallapuram, a ‘Special Area Development Authority’ volition beryllium acceptable up to make world-class, modern tourism infrastructure, astatine an estimated outgo of ₹100 crore, helium added.

Under theTamil Nadu Tourism Policy 2023, SIPCOT volition place tourer locations and found tourism facilities, helium said. In a measurement towards that direction, 4 peculiar tourer destinations person been identified successful the districts of Kanniyakumari, Kallakurichi, Erode, and Thoothukudi, and expressions of involvement person been invited to pull investments, helium added.

Mr. Stalin said 31 locations had been selected crossed the State, and a big of tourism infrastructure, including accommodation facilities, taxable parks, camping sites, and nature-based resorts, would beryllium created.

“Bookmark Tamil Nadu arsenic your favourite destination. You volition marque unforgettable memories and archer your friends that Tamil Nadu is your 2nd home,” helium said.

Some of the large MoUs are connected mounting up a multi-purpose sports stadium and a high-performance installation centre, practice taxable parkland astatine Chengalpettu, ropeway successful Salem, and amusement parks, a sports and recreation centre, and luxury hotels successful the State.

Pham Sanh Chau, Managing Director and CEO of VinGroup Asia Operations, signed an MoU with the authorities to acceptable up world-class amusement parks, hotels and EV mobility solutions successful Tamil Nadu.

Mr. Stalin said the purpose of this league was to pull much backstage investments successful the tourism sector, placing Tamil Nadu arsenic India’s champion tourism concern destination, bring successful backstage investors, circuit operators, developers, and manufacture stakeholders nether 1 level with the government, and beforehand infrastructure projects.

In the past 5 years, the State authorities allocated ₹612.18 crore for the improvement of the assemblage and, arsenic a result, 128.97 crore home tourists and 45 lakh overseas tourists visited Tamil Nadu during this period, helium added.

He inaugurated projects including the glow plot astatine Mamallapuram and Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation edifice astatine Chidambaram, and laid the instauration chromatic for projects specified arsenic tourism facilities astatine Tharangambadi.

Industries Minister T.R.B. Rajaa said Tamil Nadu was the astir urbanised State successful India that balanced superior sectors, manufacturing and services output. “At the bosom of each this is inclusivity, colonisation standard and regionally engineered distributed growth.”

Tourism Minister R. Rajendran, K. Manivasan, further main caput of Tourism, and Ravichandran Ashwin, erstwhile Indian cricket team’s spinner, spoke astatine the event.

MSME Minister T.M. Anbarasan, Chief Secretary N. Muruganandam, Tourism Commissioner J. Innocent Divya, Managing Director and CEO, Guidance Tamil Nadu, Darez Ahamed, and Industries Secretary V. Arun Roy were among those contiguous astatine the event.