Home stays play a vital role in the tourism sector of Kerala by offering a different hospitality experience to the travellers who loves the genuinity and quality of the alternative tourism options. Home stays are meant to offer the comfort accommodation, informal atmosphere, family interaction, promotion of localised tourism etc. Today both budget as well as premium travellers wish to find the best home stays according to their interest and concepts. There are village home stays, heritage home stays, Ayurveda and meditation Home stays etc to cater the traveller’s requirement. Kerala Tourism and Govt encourage home stays across the state also they implement certain quality criteria’s for these accommodation units. Today Kerala’s all fourteen states have sufficient home stay options to provide the off beaten as well as the regular travellers.