ORGANISATIONAL SETUP

........The Department is headed by the Director (IAS cadre) and supported by two Additional Directors - one Additional Director (General- IAS cadre) and the other Additional Director (Hospitality - Non - IAS cadre). The Additional Director (General) is assisting the Director in all matters of the Department whereas the Additional Director (Hospitality) looks after the Hospitality wing only. There are three Joint Directors in the Department one at the Directorate and the other two at the Regional Offices, Ernakulam and Kozhikode. The Joint Director at the Directorate is looking after the Estate Office duty. An Administrative officer and Finance Officer from Government Secretariat are looking after all administrative matters and financial matters respectively. Planning Section is headed by Planning Officer on deputation basis. Maintenance of vehicles and providing vehicles to State Ministers and State Guests are being monitored by an Executive Engineer from PWD (Mechanical) on deputation basis. There are 3 Deputy Directors at the Directorate. One Deputy Director is looking after the maintenance of Guest Houses and Residential Bungalows of ministers and VIPs. The publicity wing is headed by a Deputy Director and assisted by a Tourist Information Officer. Accounts department is managed by a Deputy Director functioning as Drawing and Disbursing Officer. Statistics, Research and Computer division is manned by the staff from the Department of Economics and Statistics and supervised by the Research Officer.

........The Department has Offices in all the districts of which six are headed by Deputy Directors and eight by Tourist Information Officers. There are fifteen Information Offices within the State and four outside the State. All these offices are concentrating very effectively in marketing Kerala Tourism.