Kanyakumari" the southernmost tip tourist attraction of Indian subcontinent is formerly known as Cape Comorin. The name to this attractive tourist place, Kanyakumari derived from the virgin goddess Kumari Amman or Kumari Bhagavati Amman. 

"Kanyakumari" the district itself stores a number of tourist palaces in it. Places with natural beauty, artificial beauty, Devotional places, viewpoints. One cannot ignore Kanyakumari tourism during his visit to south India. Kanyakumari is blown up with tourist during the summer season as well as in winter season. Every year there are lakhs of tourist visit to Kanyakumari tourism. 

Being one of the most important tourist places of South India, Kanyakumari is with the north region of Kerala later known as Travancore. The capital of Travancore was Padmanabhapuram one of the most attractive tourist places of Kanyakumari, later it is shifted to Trivandrum which is about 85km away from Kanyakumari. 

Even though the capital has been shifted to Trivandrum the attraction of Padmanabhapuram, Kanyakumari remains the same due to the Padmanabhapuram palace. Padmanabhapuram palace is one of the important sightseeing of Kanyakumari in Kanyakumari tourism. Even though Padmanabhapuram palace is in Kanyakumari but it is still managed by the Kerala archeological department, due to the treaty signed during the merger of Kanyakumari with Tamilnadu. 

Palaces to visit in Kanyakumari can be seen in two parts that is one of Kanyakumari local sightseeing which can be covered by walk and others are like Vivekananda Rock memorial, Gandhi memorial, Kamaraj Manimandapam, Triveni Sangam and so on within the surrounding of Kanyakumari like Suchindram temple, Adhikesavar Perumal temple, Godhanda ramar temple and so on. 

Being the south most tip place of India peninsula it is so obvious of having most number of beaches there are many number of beaches in Kanyakumari like Muttam Beach, Sengapattinam Beach, Sotthavialai Beach and so on.