Tourism: Principles and Practices

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.

PART I - FUNDAMENTALS OF TOURISM
Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Tourism Concept
Chapter 2. Development of Tourism through the Ages
Chapter 3. Travel Behaviour and Motivation
Chapter 4. Cultural and Sociological Tourism
PART II - BASIC TOURISM SERVICES
Chapter 5. Passenger Transport Business
Chapter 6. Hospitality Services
Chapter 7. Travel Agency Business Perspective
Chapter 8. Tour Operation Management
Chapter 9. Ancillary Tourism Sector
PART III - TOURISM DEMAND AND SUPPLY
Chapter 10. Measurement of Tourism Demand
Chapter 11. Basic Tourism Supply Components
PART IV - TOURISM IMPACTS AND POLICY FORMULATION
Chapter 12. Tourism Impacts on the Economy and the Environment
Chapter 13. Tourism Policy and Planning
PART V - MODERN TOURISM BUSINESS
Chapter 14. International, National, and Regional Tourism and Related Organizations
Chapter 15. Fundamentals of Tourism Marketing and Research
Chapter 16. E-Tourism
Chapter 17. Contemporary Trends and Practices