Eating and staying in Kerala
16,054 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 2,478 towns and suburbs in Kerala.
Kerala accounts for 21% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 1st-largest of the 36 regions by venue count. Those 16,054 venues sit across 2,478 named towns and suburbs, of which 49 carry at least 40 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is relatively even: Ernakulam (531), Varkala (424) and Kochi (364) hold 8% of everything between them. The remaining 2,429 places average 4.4 venues each — a long tail of small settlements that we list on the nearest town page rather than give an empty page to.
The regional split runs 63% eating to 37% accommodation, against a national 66/34. That is close to the national balance.
1,924 venues in Kerala carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on al faham (5), malabar (4) and arabic (22).
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 1,047 venues here publish opening hours (7% against 8% nationally), 389 list a website, and 165 record step-free access. Everything on this site comes from open data, so coverage reflects what mappers and councils have published — not what exists on the ground.
The category split
| Restaurants | 5,931 in Kerala · 37% of the region · 21% of New Zealand's 28,244 |
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| Hotels | 3,030 in Kerala · 19% of the region · 22% of New Zealand's 13,603 |
| Cafés | 2,074 in Kerala · 13% of the region · 21% of New Zealand's 10,105 |
| Takeaways | 1,603 in Kerala · 10% of the region · 15% of New Zealand's 10,760 |
| Hostels | 1,394 in Kerala · 9% of the region · 28% of New Zealand's 4,993 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 890 in Kerala · 6% of the region · 19% of New Zealand's 4,782 |
| Bars | 440 in Kerala · 3% of the region · 25% of New Zealand's 1,747 |
| Serviced apartments | 308 in Kerala · 2% of the region · 21% of New Zealand's 1,502 |
| Motels | 272 in Kerala · 2% of the region · 46% of New Zealand's 592 |
| Pubs | 99 in Kerala · 1% of the region · 19% of New Zealand's 515 |
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 91 in Kerala · 1% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 1,227 |
Towns and suburbs in Kerala
A further 2,429 smaller places in Kerala carry fewer than 40 venues each. Rather than publish a page with nothing to say, we list their venues on the town pages nearest them.