This comprehensive text book offers a perspective of tourism even more stimulating journey through the core curriculum, contemporary debates and emerging issues in tourism and hospitality. Logically sequenced and lucidly written, this book provides insight in to the traditional and contemporary approaches of tourism and hospitality management and their impact in the global era. This book discusses the basic and fundamental concepts of tourism and hospitality management in a very simple and lucid manner to create better understanding on the subject. The Indian tourism and hospitality industry has emerged as one of the key drivers of growth among the services sector in India. Tourism in India has significant potential considering the rich cultural and historical heritage, variety in ecology, terrains and places of natural beauty spread across the country. Tourism is also a potentially large employment generator besides being a significant source of foreign exchange for the country. India is expected to move up five spots to be ranked among the top five business travel market globally by 2030, as business travel spending in the country is expected to treble until 2030 from US$ 50 billion in 2018. This book retains the critical edge, academic rigour and breadth of coverage in tourism and hospitality management.This book will definitely be of great help for the students to grasp the fundamental concepts of tourism and hospitality management and further implementation of those.This book is designed to provide the theoretical and applied knowledgefor the students of the tourism, management and hospitality streams.

Salient Key Features:

• Coverage of course requirements in its entirely in crisp and lucid manner.

• Discusses the concept of tourism and hospitality management.

• It contains ample description of different topics.

• It is the blend of topics from tourism and hospitality management.

• It has application oriented approach.

• Each chapter includes graphs, figures and tables to explain the concepts in an effective manner.

• It contains rich pedagogy such as: Chapter Objectives, Summary, Key Concepts, Review Questions and Assignments.