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Kerala continues to acceptable caller benchmarks successful tourism, with the State signaling its highest-ever tourer arrivals successful 2025.
Speaking to mediapersons successful Kozhikode connected Monday (February 16, 2026), Tourism Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas, citing the latest authoritative figures, said a full of 2.58 crore guests visited Kerala during the year, surpassing the erstwhile grounds of 2.29 crore arrivals successful 2024.
The State welcomed an further 28,95,002 tourists successful 2025 compared to the erstwhile year, marking a important surge and reinforcing its increasing entreaty arsenic a apical question destination, Mr. Riyas said.
He said Kerala registered footfalls of 2.5 crore home tourists successful 2025, up from 2.22 crore successful the erstwhile year, marking an summation of 12.46%. Domestic tourer arrivals recorded an summation of 36.3% compared to the pre-COVID level.
Among the districts, Idukki recorded the highest fig of home tourer arrivals astatine 46,79,800, followed by Ernakulam (44,29,899), Thiruvananthapuram (43,75,846), Thrissur (31,24,696), Wayanad (14,73,710), and Kozhikode (14,69,253).
Outside Kerala, the large contributing States successful presumption of home tourer arrivals were Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Telangana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal, the Tourism Minister said.
Regarding overseas tourists, Mr. Riyas said the State was dilatory reaching pre-COVID levels. “War-like conditions prevailing successful assorted parts of the satellite are 1 of the large reasons for this. In 2025, arsenic galore arsenic 8,21,999 overseas guests visited Kerala, an 11.3% summation compared to the erstwhile year,” helium said.
Most visitors arrived from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the Maldives. Ernakulam territory led successful the accomplishment of overseas visitors, followed by Thiruvananthapuram, Idukki, Alappuzha, and Kottayam.
The Minister attributed the accomplishment to the “well-planned initiatives” undertaken by Kerala Tourism. “The renovation of remainder houses has brought astir a important transformation, and a ample percent of those utilizing these facilities are tourists. Considerable advancement has been achieved successful northbound Kerala,” helium said.
“Accommodation facilities, including five-star hotels, person accrued successful districts specified arsenic Kasaragod. Better roads person besides been developed. As a result, districts specified arsenic Wayanad, Kozhikode, and Thrissur, which had earlier lagged down successful tourer arrivals, person witnessed a surge. This has brought important changes successful the tourism assemblage successful the Malabar region,” said Mr. Riyas, adding that Kerala would soon look arsenic a full-fledged “tourism State.”
