In fact, across the country, in the last decade or so, the police have been busting several such operations. Increasing levels of income, a growing preference for decentralised apartments as against red-light areas, and demands of industries like tourism have meant that prostitution in massage parlours continues to exist and grow in spite of repeated arrests and raids.
One of the highlights of Kerala tourism, the ayurvedic herbal massage has been drawing huge crowds from across the world. In fact, Wikitravel, one of the most-frequented sites on tourist destinations, makes this observation quite bluntly on its Kerala page.
The ones which have been rated and authorised will not risk losing their accreditation by going in for this. Moreover, many of these things happen through tour operators. So the tourists know which operator to approach even before they reach here. So the Tourism Department has no role in it. More than a decade ago the Tourism Department had come under fire for its advertisement showcasing a scantily-clad foreign woman being given a body massage.
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