IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM

Travel has played a very important role in fulfilling the basic needs of human beings.

Now-a-days Travel and Tourism has acquired the status of an industry. It is a dynamic and smokeless industry, not a static one. As a service sector, it can be used to enhance international understanding, communal harmony, global peace and cultural exchange.

Travelling for pleasure is tourism. Tourism today requires instant transmission of
information. As a result, it is closely associated with the modern techniques of communications like Internet, satellite etc.

In India, Travel and Tourism has become the largest employment generating industry.
On the one hand, it promotes income generating activities and on the other, it helps the
nation to pocket some foreign currency without any export activities.

The present course aims at developing and promoting the basic vocational expertise in
order to keep pace with this ever changing and dynamic tourism industry. An attempt has been made to identify the various skills involved in Travel and Tourism industry and generate the same among the learners.