The Secretary District Tourism Promotion Council

The District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) is set up with the purpose of fully exploiting the tourism potential of the State through sustained efforts by co-ordinating various Government departments, voluntary agencies and others interested in travel and tourism. The DTPC has a governing body with District Collector as Chairman and members from among officials, people’s representatives and tourism experts nominated by the Government. The DTPC mainly concentrates on tourism promotion activities like marketing of local products through private/public participation, improvement of quality/standards and evolving procedure for certification of all tourism products, improvement of signages, sanitation etc by working through the local governments, heritage conservation and preservation, coordination of tourism clubs, creation of tourism awareness and preparation of host community, promotion of paying guest scheme, information dissemination and local basic infrastructure projects.