Whenever people find time,the first thing they want to do is to go out with their families to hill station,sea-beaches or natural resorts and locations having high scenic value excellent climate.Spending some time at such far-off,attractive spots gives them a happy relief from the apparent monotony and shapelessness of routine existence.They travel as tourists.Their number is rising and and industry is fast expanding. It serve as the hub of bright opportunities for a large number of young professionals who can handle this vast expanding travel and tourism industry efficiently.If you have a pleasant,cool and calm personality,you can manage thing efficiently co-ordinate a number of related persons,and to make tourist feel happy,then travel and tourism is one of the best option for you, Job opportunities are increasing in this sector and in future and the industry will be key contributor to the property of the country.
The word ‘tour’literally means long journey including a visiting of a number of places sequence especially with an organized group and led by a guide. Tourism is the activity or practice of touring especially for pleasure.The industry or business of tourism involves the providing of information ,accommodation,transportation and other services to tourists as well as the promotion of the tourist travel for the commercial purposes.
According to the Conde Nast Traveller UK magazine in September 2006,India has the ranked fourth among 100 top travel destinations in the World.There are several factors which have the growth of trave land tourism in India which are as follows-
1.India is a civilization which is more than 5000 years old and boasts of tremendous diversity in cultural heritage which is attracts the tourists.
2.To wide varieties of music,dance,festivals art and crafts.
3.To be available multi-cuisine in India such as Mughlai cuisine,South Indian cuisine,North Indian cuisine and others tasteful cuisine which is found North Eastern part of India,
4.To boasts of wide range of natural resort like, mountains,deserts forests and beaches.
5.To be found historical monuments in which considerable architecture splendor,are a major tourist attraction of India,
6.A larg number of religious destination and spiritual retreat are also to be found in India.
7.Indians are service oriented and hospitable in nature and also India vast educated labour force which is mostly proficient in English.
Tourism is one of the industry which has flourished extensively in India after liberalization of the economy.Liberalization,privatization,and globalization of the economy has been resulted in a big boom in the economy of the country.Consequently,people have come to posses greater purchasing power with more wealth at their disposal.Their is also great enthusiasm and willingness among people to spend the disposal in come in touring and traveling.
The Information and Communication technology has revolution has increased the connectivity between peoples and places to an extent which had never been envisaged in the past.Airlines slashed their fares to an all time low.Road and railways have also extended their reaches to the remotest corner of the country.All these factors have resulted in the boom in the tourism sector which has thrown up a lot of job opportunities. Tourism is the largest export industry in the world and the third largest export industry in India after ready made garment and gem& jewelery.During 2003,tourism contributed around Rs.3ooo crore to the forex reserves of India.Hence the hotel industry bring in the largest amount bof foreign exchange earnings for the tourism sector.The Government is engaged in the development of infrastructure,exploration of new market; product development and launching of new market plan for tourism; launching of national images building; protection of environment and the preservation of national heritage.In it is bid to better facilities to tourists,the Government provide cheap accommodation to tourist various tourist centres.Government is also involved in the promotion of wildlife tourism and co-adventure sports.
A number of organizations like the Department of tourism,the India Tourism Development Corporation[ITDC],the India Tourism Corporation Limited,etc,are involved in the task of developing tourism in the Cente.