The recent rapid growth of demand for tourism is caused due to economic, social and technological developments. In a way, democratization of leisure pursuits is yet another factor of tourist traffic growth. This book intends to explore principles of tourism development. This will prove high informative and useful for academics and professionals in the field.

CONTENTS

. Introduction
. Planning and Development
. Tourism Organisation
. Tour Operations: Purchasing Qualities and Discounts
. Travel Agencies
. Management and Marketing
. Passenger Mobility
. Air Transport
. Role of Information Technology
. Geographical Effect Tourism for Business
. Role of Technology; etc.

Development of Tourism in India makes a detailed study of the tourism phenomenon in its numerous aspects. It examines various concepts in tourism, what makes possible and how tourism is an important factor in the prosperity of a nation. Divided into eleven chapters, the book covers role of tourism in Socio-economic growth-for generating employment, for opening up of new areas for promoting national integration and international understanding. It focuses on Tourism Planning in India from the First Five-Year Plan to the Eighth Five-Year Plan. Major Committees formed for Tourism Planning, prospects of Tourism Education in India, Management of Travel Agency and Ecological aspects of tourism. It also deals with future of Youth Tourism in developing countries, HRD for productivity in India's Tourism Industry and finally conclusion and suggestions.

The book has been prepared with an aim to explain the tourism phenomenon in its totality and to some extent satisfy a long-felt need for such a work. The material in the book will provide valuable information of national and international tourism organizations, travel agencies, hotel establishments, transport and carrier firms and educational institutes. The book will be special interest to students pursuing Post-Graduate Diploma in Tourism Management and Master of Tourism Administration (MTA) courses.

The modern hotel and tourism industry is now approaching a crucial stage in development-in some way is facing its own mid-life crisis. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HOTEL MANAGEMENT AND TOURISM attempts to offer a more comprehensive examination of tourism and hospitality growth and development, a new perspective for its systematic approach to planning and management and a synoptic summary of individualized impacts of tourism-economic, environmental, cultural and ecological. This supremely practical, prescriptive and informative encyclopaedia provides a rare insight into the realities of hospitality, hotel and catering management highlighting its managerial, economic, financial, behavioural and human resource problems and prospects. The encyclopaedia is a systematic approach to the hotel and tourism industry, which review its individual components in a more justified and simplified technique.

The encyclopaedia is particularly useful to the student of hotel management and tourism, practitioners of the industry, research community and those involved with the development and planning of the industry. Its readable and lively style makes it suitable for diploma and degree courses of tourism, hotel and catering management as well as reference work for the institutions, research organizations and leisure development bodies.

'Hotel' and 'Tourism' industries are inseparable and are of crucial importance in the present context. This book imparts authoritative information on Scope and Significance of Tourism; Structure of Tourism Industry; Journey of tourism: Its evolution; Process of Tourist development; Development Planning for Tourism; Tourism and Economic Development; Economic Importance of Tourism-A Case of Britain; Impact of Tourist Development; Impact Analysis of tourism and Island Economies; Conceptual Issues in Tourism Development; Competitive Strategies for tourism development; Environmental dimension of Tourism; Urban Tourism: An Imbalance in Tourism Development; Development of Tourism in world vis-à-vis India. The book is particularly useful for the students of hotel management and tourism, practitioners of the industry, research community and those involved with the development and planning of the industry.