Bhopal, Nov. 18 :    Bhopal, Nov. 18:  Madhya Pradesh found a place on the international tourism map after it entered into a partnership with the World Travel and Trade Council (WTTC). It has become only the third state after Kerala and Rajasthan to do so. While Kerala sells its ayurveda and backwaters to the world, Rajasthan emphasises on its heritage. Madhya Pradesh, on the other hand, will seduce tourists with the erotic sculptures of Khajuraho and the wilds of Bandhavgarh and Kanha. State tourism minister Ajay Singh had signed the MoU on Tuesday in London. He had gone to participate in the four-day World Tourism Mart held there from November 12 to 15 and returned with WTTC chairman Jean Claude Baumgarten's signature on the dotted line. An ecstatic state government is now gearing up to have tourist attractions prim and proper by October 2002, the next tourism season. The state has already spoken with the aviation ministry for an international airport. The tourism minister claimed that the issue of an international airport was 'progressing well'. The railway ministry has also been contacted for a Palace on Wheels in the state. 'We have suggested that it should be a five-day trip on the Palace on Wheels. Starting from New Delhi, it could travel through Agra to enter Madhya Pradesh at Gwalior, go into Uttar Pradesh at Jhansi and then come back to the state at Khajuraho. Khajuraho has to get connected,' the tourism minister said. The process will take another six to eight months before the wheels start chugging, he added. 'We are being very level-headed right now. If there are 0.5 million foreign tourists coming to India, there are 1.5 million from our country going abroad for holidays. We first want to trap this brand of class one domestic tourists. So the things to make sure are trains that arrive at decent hours and flights that reach us from various parts of the country. This state will have to become accessible,' Singh said. Asked on the trade agreement with WTTC, the tourism minister said: 'There are no financial obligations, but the understanding is that they will promote Madhya Pradesh globally as a potential tourist destination, the same way as they have helped Rajasthan and Kerala. The WTTC are the global leaders in the tourism business and they have agreed to sell us for wildlife tourism, especially our tigers at Bandhavgarh and Kanha.' Two other places - Khajuraho and Mandu - have been earmarked for heritage. The state aims to get the infrastructure in place in the next 10 months. The terrible roads or sometimes the lack of roads will have to be tackled first, the tourism minister agreed. 'We hope roads to those places will be operational by October next year,' Singh said.