Coastal tourism is one of the major forms of recreational tourism. India has very long coastline along the mainland and numerous islands. It has ample scope to develop coastal tourism. It has achieved commendable success in Goa and Kovalam regarding beach tourism. Other coastal States are also changing atmosphere favourable for it. The main reason behind it is, that in contrary to traditional sight seeing type tourism, it has longer ...
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 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 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, ...