Travel Agent
travel agents aand its effectiveness
CONCEPT OF TOURISM
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF TOURISM
Tourism, as an industry has emerged as an instrument for employment generation, poverty alleviation and sustainable human development. Tourism promotes international understanding and gives support to local handicrafts and cultural activities. It is an important segment of the country’s economy, especially in terms of its contribution towards foreign exchange earnings, generation of additional income and creation of employment opportunities.
With rapid advances in science and technology, tourism has acquired the station of an industry in all industrialized countries. The high influx of foreign tourist traffic has accelerated demand for certain economic production and distribution activities. Tourism has emerged as an industry next in importance only to Information Technology industry in the services sector. In the next few years, the contribution of Tourism to the world economy will be doubled. The economic liberalization in the country and consequent foreign investment opportunities, development of tourist facilities including expansion in airline services provide an impetus for a spurt in tourist airways as in other regions of the world, e.g. South Africa and South Asian regions. Domestic tourism plays a vital role in achieving the national objectives of promoting social and cultural cohesion and national integration. Its contribution to generation of employment is very high. With the increase in income levels and emergence of a powerful middle class, the potential for domestic employment has grown substantially during the last-few years.
The words ‘tourist’ and ‘ tourism’ were first used as official terms in 1937 by the League of Nations, but the tourism industry is much older than that. It was defined as people traveling abroad for periods of over twenty-four hours, but the term may also include traveling within one’s own country, and in a
CONCEPT OF TOURISM
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF TOURISM
Tourism, as an industry has emerged as an instrument for employment generation, poverty alleviation and sustainable human development. Tourism promotes international understanding and gives support to local handicrafts and cultural activities. It is an important segment of the country’s economy, especially in terms of its contribution towards foreign exchange earnings, generation of additional income and creation of employment opportunities.
With rapid advances in science and technology, tourism has acquired the station of an industry in all industrialized countries. The high influx of foreign tourist traffic has accelerated demand for certain economic production and distribution activities. Tourism has emerged as an industry next in importance only to Information Technology industry in the services sector. In the next few years, the contribution of Tourism to the world economy will be doubled. The economic liberalization in the country and consequent foreign investment opportunities, development of tourist facilities including expansion in airline services provide an impetus for a spurt in tourist airways as in other regions of the world, e.g. South Africa and South Asian regions. Domestic tourism plays a vital role in achieving the national objectives of promoting social and cultural cohesion and national integration. Its contribution to generation of employment is very high. With the increase in income levels and emergence of a powerful middle class, the potential for domestic employment has grown substantially during the last-few years.
The words ‘tourist’ and ‘ tourism’ were first used as official terms in 1937 by the League of Nations, but the tourism industry is much older than that. It was defined as people traveling abroad for periods of over twenty-four hours, but the term may also include traveling within one’s own country, and in a