Over the past four years, Andhra Pradesh Development Corporation (APTDC) has added an array of function to its lists of tasks, with a determination to show commendable performance. From just providing information to tourists, it has gone into serious business like accommodation, catering, & such other service that have become essential for ensuring tourist infrastructure & service.

APTDC has now raised its own building 'Tourism House' with state-of the art facilities at Himayatnagar, Hyderabad to locate its Corporation Office. The office started functioning from the new premises since July 2003. The civil works of the building were completed in a record time of 7 months & the interiors in 2 month.

The turning point: The turnover of the Corporation in 1998 - 99 was Rs.328 lakh & this went on to become a whopping Rs.2004 lakh at the end of the financial year 2001 - 2002- a turnaround that no other tourism corporation in the country would have ever achieved in such a short time. Keeping this performance in view, the Corporation has reset its goals to maintain the tempo & meet the ever - increasing challenges posed by such rapid development & resultant expectations.

The State Tourism Policy & its impact on the tourism Corporation entails. Tourism being identified as an engine of economic growth, harnessing the direct & multiplier effects for employment generation & economic development in an environmentally sustainable manner. Highlighting the opportunities the State has to offer to bring out the vast untapped potential in heritage, pilgrim, beach & convention tourism.

The Corporation's activities:
Accommodation, Catering, Conducted Tours, Package Tours, Leisure Cruises & Pleasure Boating, Water Sports, Sound & Light Shows, Eco-Tourism, Adventure Tourism, Tourism Infrastructure Development, New Projects Implementation. The Corporation chalked out an action plan covering all these vital functions. The organizational structure of the corporation has also been recast keeping in mind the growth & result oriented development activity in all these spheres.