Many of the traditional wooden house boats that were a big draw for Indian and foreign tourists on the palm-fringed inland lagoons in Kerala are standing idle during the peak season.
This house boat owner in the tropical back waters in Alappuzha waits for visitors, but their numbers have dwindled after the most intense rains in a century triggered devastating floods last August.
Last Monday, just really feeling bad because on a last December, we can get good money and good business, some good a lot of business in in this field.
上周一,我感觉真地很差,因为去年12月,我们赚得盆满钵满,生意兴旺,做了很多比好买卖。
But to 2018 is going down.
但2018年的时候,生意越来越差。
A tourist boom in recent years created tens of thousands of jobs, but despite the receding flood waters, work has been slow.
近年来的旅游热潮创造了无数工作岗位,但现在,即便洪水已退,就业率依然低迷。
Two months, three months salary has been spending because of we don’t know enough this year we don’t have enough income.
我们寅吃卯粮,因为我们今年根本没赚多少。
Vowing to revive tourism, authorities are racing to restore damaged infrastructure in the plains and in careless popular hill areas where verdant hillsides had crumbled into brown rubble due to landslides.
Environmentalists, however, cautioned that cutting fragile hillsides and diverting farmlands to build roads and resorts to accommodate visitors contributed to intensifying the flooding.
The urbanization and development that has happened has taken over a significant portion of area ecologically sensitive area which could have, you know, distributed water evenly or even allowed water to go inside the ground.
Infrastructure is being built without considering the movement of water. Okay, so, for example, they’re constructing roads without giving way for water to pass under the road.
So, you know, they’re constructing fast, but my my fear is that most of the roads are going to again became become an embankment.
就是这样,他们建造得很快,但我担心大多数道路会再次成为路堤。
Others say tourism is their lifeline.
还有一些人认为旅游业是他们的命脉。
People are struggling now, because somehow guests should understand that key lies under person safe, and we all welcome them to a point for our survival and better business.