KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS Failure modes and fraud controls HOW IT COULD BE GAMED TH E C O NT RO L TH A T C LOSE S I T Operators soliciting or buying favourable ratings. Genuine-visit verification; velocity and pattern anomaly detection; weighting toward verified distinct visitors. Competitors planting negative reviews. Account-provenance checks; a minimum-volume threshold before any score publishes; a dispute-andaudit path. A good score on one street used to advertise a different shop. Scores bound to a registered business and location; tamperevident corridor pages. Table 10.2, Tourism Excellence Kerala: gaming vectors and controls. Objections, answered Tourism’s objections are mostly about review integrity and fairness to small operators. Q. Won’t operators just buy good ratings, like everywhere else online? A. That is exactly why the score is built on verified on-location visits rather than open reviews. A rating counts only from a device that was demonstrably at the business in the rating window, weighted toward distinct verified visitors, with velocity and pattern anomaly detection. A score publishes only above a minimum volume, so a handful of planted ratings cannot move it. 160