Bekal Beach Resort and Spa – An architectural symphony
Conceived as the Heaven in the God’s own Country, Bekal Beach Resort and spa is located in Kasargod, the northern district of Kerala. It is a top end five star deluxe beach resort with 166 cottages, built in traditional Kerala architectural style.
The first planned beach resort destination in the Country, it is developed by Government of Kerala.
Mr. U.V. Jose, the managing Director and CEO of the project elaborates the details of the project to Kerala Holidays 247
Can you please narrate the Bekal project and its stake holders?
It is developed in 55.43 acres of land with a theme ‘true celebration of Kerala heritage with focus on Malabar. The resort has a total built up area of about 3,00,000 sq.ft. It features different types of rooms including water villas, pool villas, beach villas, garden villas and spas and a state-of-the –art convention centre with a seating capacity of 2000.The total estimated cost of the project is Rs 107.85 crores.
The Bekal Beach Resort and Spa is developed by Government of Kerala through Bekal Resorts Development Corporation (BRDC)with private sector participation.
It is being set up by Green Gateway Leisure LTD(GGL), the hospitality arm of Air Travel Enterprises India Limited (ATE)Group, Trivandrum.
Are we on the right tracks in terms meeting the milestone?
Land development and piling are going on as we speak. The cloakroom construction has started and expected to complete in 3 months. By august 2011, a pilot project will be commissioned with more than 100 rooms.
What are specialty and the significance of the resort?
It’s a first of its kind, a model resort incorporating all aspect of responsible tourism-economic, social and environment. For economic side-when we develop we include local community so that the benefits circulate down. When we started this project the place was like an isolated village with 300 plus families and with no roads. Because of our resort a road has been constructed in a shared land and the local community is now connected with other parts of the area by road. With 156 rooms and all facilities, a resort of this kind can be helpful to local community. We are motivating local people to cultivate vegetable, fish and other things and we can procure these things for the resorts instead of buying from outside states. This way we are making this resort a truly model resort to enhance social, economic and environment standards.
The site has unique feature of both beach and backwater frontage. It has 400 meters of beach and 700 meters of backwater frontage with a scenic lush green of coconut palms. The accommodation units are mostly single storied cottages.
What are the other facilities planned in the resort?
The resort will be equipped with Library, Money Exchange/ ATM, Travel Desk, Internet Centre with WiFi access, Health club and Beauty salon, Handicraft Village, kids club, Facilities for differently abled, amphitheatre and Open air auditoriums, Water Sports Activities, Canal Boating and Walking & jogging trails.
What are the future plans of GGL?
GGL is special purpose vehicle set up only for Bakel resort project. A series of many projects have initially envisaged being the Bakel as the first one. Plans for other phases are yet to be finalized. These projects will cover areas from south to north of Kerala including Trivandrum, Kumarakom, cochin, Wayanad, Kasargod etc.
Unimaginable in `God’s Own Country’ … indiscriminate sand mining and a loss of green cover have made water sources dry up…
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Monsoon starts raining from this land of God’s Own Country. Enjoy the multi incarnations of monsoon in its place of origin. Monsoon in Kerala, with its altering attires of nature is an enchanting phenomenon to watch. A life giving bliss to the nature and mankind, it gives birth to new bio diversity. And the existing biosphere awaits the arrival of monsoon. It takes away all the impurities from the land and buries them in depths of the sea. 
