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Travel Agency Management is the first book of its kind which touches upon at length all typical travel agency and tour operator management issues, challenges, and gray areas such as, concept of agency and tour operation, changing dimensions of tour operators, itinerary planning, tour package management, Tour costing and Pricing, Travel agency marketing, Travel agency HRD, Cruise industry, Hotel industry, Financing tourism ventures and projects, Airline ticketing, ...
Tourism may rightly be described as a wheel of economic prosperity. For several countries it is a major source of generating revenues, earning foreign exchange and creating employment opportunities. Tourism contributes for the protection of environment and preservation of monuments and heritages. Further, it leads to international understanding and brotherhood. No doubt there are various impacts of tourism but it is primarily because of its economic benefits that ...
Tourism industry is passing through a transitional phase from old traditional style pilgrimage tourism to latest on line booking system. Unlike traditional tourists, new tourists are more sophisticated, more informed needing more comforts and quality personalized services. They don’t travel on trial and error basis from destination to destination. They need very attractive package of tour product at very optimal price. To meet all these requirements of new ...
Tourism not only provides means of recreation and relaxation to the tourists but offers succour to the ailing and developing economies of the world. The entrepreneurs, communities and states find immense commercial opportunities in tourism and have made earnest efforts to reap the benefits. The net result is the generation of wealth to the tune of US$ 622.7 billion in 2004. But this wealth generation is not without a price. For the development of tourism, ...