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Tourism-Principles and Practices is a comprehensive textbook, designed especially for undergraduate and postgraduate students of travel and tourism studies. It focuses on a wide array of concepts, principles, and practices in tourism and is supplemented with numerous exhibits, examples, illustrations, and cases.
Divided into five parts, the book covers every aspect of the tourism trade. The first part is devoted to the concepts, history, motivation, and impacts of tourism. The second part discusses basic tourism services like passenger transport, hospitality, travel agency, tour operations, and the ancillary tourism sector. The third part throws light on the demand and supply components of the tourism business. In the fourth part, the economic and environmental impact of tourism is underlined. The last part is devoted to modern tourism business, with special emphasis on national and international tourism organizations, tourism marketing and research, e-tourism, and contemporary trends and practices.
Besides students, the book will be useful to practitioners like travel agents and tour operators also.
ISBN - 9780198072362
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Pages : 772
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