Tourism Business and its Impacts

Paper Code: 
MTB 102
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

To Understand Tourism Product and its impact on the Society ,Economy and the Environment

7.00
Unit I: 

Impact of Tourism : The Socio-economic Impact- Tourism as a great economic force, Its significance, Tourism Multiplier ,Employment Multiplier and Infrastructure development.

The Socio-cultural Impact- Positive and negative impact of tourism development on the society and culture, Sex Tourism, Drug tourism.

8.00
Unit II: 

Environmental Impacts of Tourism: The effect of tourism development on the Environmental pollution. Positive & Negative impact of Tourism development on the environment. The emerging concept of Ecotourism.

14.00
Unit III: 

Concept of Domestic and International Tourism. Modern Global tourism scenario-Concept of Modern Mass Tourism, Urban &Rural Tourism.

8.00
Unit IV: 

Tourism scenario in India – Potentials , Problems and prospects. India’s resource potential for tourism, recognition by Government , Ways to stimulate tourism in India

8.00
Unit V: 

Tourism – The existing pattern and Future trends : World’s major countries in terms of Total expenditure abroad, Countries having maximum International tourism expenditure, Travel of the future – Space Odyssey.

Status of Tourism education and career opportunities in Tourism industry

Essential Readings: 

Tourism Development: Principles and Practices        Bhatia

International Tourism Management                                A.K.Bhatia

References: 

Cultural Tourism in India                                                                Gupta and Lal

Development of Tourism in India                                                   Nafees Khan

Environmental challenges towards Tourism                               V Dhulasi Birundha

Handbook of Environmental guidelines for Indian Tourism     Ratandeep Singh

Heritage Management Swarnakamal Bhowmik Tourism Education Shashi Prabha,Sharma

Nature and Scope of Tourism                                                        Praveen Sethi

Strategies for the future of Travel and Tourism                           Praveen Sethi

Tourism Development and Resource conservation                 Jagmohan Negi

Tourism in India : A case study                                                      Ram Acharya

Tourism Products                                                                            Manoj Dixit and Charusheela Dixit

Tourism & Travel Management                                                    Biswanath Ghosh

Tourism Today                                                                                 Douglas Pearce
WTO Barometer
Reports and PPTs of WTO

Tourism in the new millennium                                                   M P Bezbaruah

Academic Year: 
2018-2019
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