Conventionally, travel and tourism involves the movement of people from their place of residence to a tourist destination with different purposes. Transport is one of the basic components of Tourism. Geographical features, climate, natural beauty, forests, seashore, lakes, mountains, fauna and flora etc., count most in tourism development.

This encyclopaedic work on geography of tourism contains highly rich and useful information on all vital issues pertaining to the subject.

A veritable mine of information, this will prove a vade mecum to all concerned.

Travel Agency Management is the first book of its kind which touches upon at length all typical travel agency and tour operator management issues, challenges, and gray areas such as, concept of agency and tour operation, changing dimensions of tour operators, itinerary planning, tour package management, Tour costing and pricing, Travel agency marketing, Travel agency HRD, cruise industry, Hotel industry, Financing tourism ventures and projects, Airline ticketing, Case studies, etc.

This new edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of the changes in this voltaic tourism industry. Moreover, this second revised edition gives more comprehensive conceptual and practical and practical understanding of the subject to the students and other professionals.

. It incorporates academic and industrial topics to meet present as well as future requirements.
. Cases, examples, thumbs, tabs and illustrations are given for easy understanding and referencing.
. It includes new chapter on cruise industry, which is an emerging segment of tour operation business.
. Each chapter is thoroughly updated to provide latest information about the area.
. It focuses on students as supervisor, tour planner, tour manager, trainer and tour executive and prepare them for new assignments, duties, and responsibilities.
. Each chapter starts with learning objectives and ends with references which encourage students and readers for further research.

With the multi-dimensional group of travel and tourism industry globally, Hotel industry has come up in big way with bright prospects. As a consequence of this the need of trained manpower for hotel and hospitality and catering industry was felt.

In fact, hotel management courses offer bright career to its graduates, as such is a much sought-after discipline these days.

This book designed as introductory text is many respects. This readings are organised under fifteen chapters, namely- Introduction; aspects of hospitality management, policies, philosophies and strategies; organisation, hotel groups and small hotels; international hotel operation; personnel management; staffing pattern; Kitchen an Dinning room; finance and accounting; front office management; Kitchen equipments and cooking processes; food and drink services; technical guidelines on food services; and safety, security and sanitation. Definitely, the presentation of readings will help users a lot. Besides this, it will serve a ready-reference work to different professionals in the field.

Tourism today has acquired wide social and economic dimensions. Due to fast and instant communication, the world has turned into a global village. Tourism today has been acknowledged as an industry and both government and the private sector have planned tourism as an essential component of their economics. For further development tourism needs planning, investment and scientific study of the subject and hence more and more educational institutions are offering tourism as a subject, in their educational curriculum. Since time immemorial India has been a great source of attraction to the world, but tourism industry has not developed so far to its full potential.

To achieve full potential Indian tourism needs shrewd planning, study of marketing processes. It also badly needs active and sincere involvement of private sector.

Due to paucity of tourist literature and research in India today, western concepts have been applied here, especially from the United States of America.

The book will impart an interesting study of tourism and will be immensely useful for all tourist departments in India and abroad.