Tamil Nadu's tourism sector faces chaos as homestay and B&B operators are left in limbo. Conflicting government policies and a Madras High Court order freezing registrations have halted operations.

The Tamil Nadu transport department is set to operate more than 20,000 buses and the Southern Railway will run several special trains ahead of Deepavali. Like in the previous years, private omni bus ...

Every few days, S Geetha logs on to the Tamil Nadu tourism department website, hoping to register her Ooty homestay. “But the portal just doesn’t seem to work. I’ve been trying for months,” she says.