Tourism and Hospitality Industry: An Insight

Global tourist traffic touched the one billion mark on December 13, 2012. A compilation of research papers, the volume deals with some pressing contemporary issues relating to the tourism industry. It focuses on the tourism industry’s practices in the past and in the present times, aspects related to sustainable development, approaches and trends in marketing of tourism and hospitality, destination panning, human resource development in tourism. It examines the hotel industry in India. With case studies such as one on e-travel agencies in Odisha and tourism impact on the host community in Nainital, Uttarakhand, it views the effects of tourism on culture and the environment with specific respect to Jammu and Kashmir, academic course in tourism for postgraduates in the Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala and pilgrimage tourism in Haryana.