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: 
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: 
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: 
UNIT III
Concept of Domestic and International Tourism. Modern Global tourism scenario-
Concept of Modern Mass Tourism, Urban & Rural Tourism.
8.00
Unit IV: 
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: 
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: 
2019-2020
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