Travel and Tourism Management Is the Key to A Bright Career
The immense potentiality of travel and tourism to upgrade a country's financial and social strength has been proven recently. Thus, many countries are rushing to tap this opportunity. India is no exception. This article will help us to understand the power of this sector.
Before I go in detail of this article, I want to mention the memorable remark of Mark Twain on India - €The one land that all men desire to see and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give the glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.€
In the conference of the chief ministers of various states of India held on October 30, 2001, the then Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee had stated:
€Tourism is a major engine of economic growth in most parts of the world. Several countries have transformed their economies using the tourism potential the fullest€¦ Tourism has great capacity to create large scale employment of diverse kind - from the most specialized to the unskilled and all of us know that generation of massive productive employment opportunities is what India needs the most.€
Now, let us look at the tourism policy of India. The policy is based on the following:
€ Highlight and upgrade tourism as a major engine of economic growth.
€ Focus on domestic tourism as a major driver of the growth of tourism.
€ Utilize the direct and multiplier effects of tourism for generation of employment, economic progress, and offering boost to rural tourism.
€ Project India as a global brand to tap the advantage of the flourishing global travel trade and the immense untapped potential of India as a destination.
€ Finally ensure that the tourists to India become physically enlivened, culturally enriched, mentally rejuvenated, spiritually elevated and, at least, €feel India from within€.
Thus, there is hardly anyone who can question the importance of travel and tourism management. An efficient management is of utmost importance to preserve the treasure of Indian tourism industry and nourish it for long to derive long term benefit from this sector. Our role should be to retain the beauty of India and present it very gently before the world.
The forecast data from the World Tourism Organization highlights that the stake of tourism volumes and related receipts, employment, Gross Domestic Product, and earnings from export is expected to shift away from the developed countries to the developing and less developed countries as an outcome of favorable economic, technological, motivational and policy factors.
There is enormous potential for creating a lot of new jobs passing travel and tourism courses. The potentiality of employment is the largest in the tourism sector in comparison with any other sector and India has the power to more than triple the number of jobs in this sector. The tourism industry has a very strong connection with the socio-economic wealth of the country. It is assumed that an investment of Rs. 1 million gives birth to 47 direct jobs and 11 indirect jobs, which overshadows the employment potential from industrial and agricultural sector.
This is the reason why many hotel management institutes are being set up for imparting education and training in this sector. The Applied Professional Training institute in Kolkata is one of the premier institutes in the country meant for travel and tourism courses.
Before I go in detail of this article, I want to mention the memorable remark of Mark Twain on India - €The one land that all men desire to see and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give the glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.€
In the conference of the chief ministers of various states of India held on October 30, 2001, the then Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee had stated:
€Tourism is a major engine of economic growth in most parts of the world. Several countries have transformed their economies using the tourism potential the fullest€¦ Tourism has great capacity to create large scale employment of diverse kind - from the most specialized to the unskilled and all of us know that generation of massive productive employment opportunities is what India needs the most.€
Now, let us look at the tourism policy of India. The policy is based on the following:
€ Highlight and upgrade tourism as a major engine of economic growth.
€ Focus on domestic tourism as a major driver of the growth of tourism.
€ Utilize the direct and multiplier effects of tourism for generation of employment, economic progress, and offering boost to rural tourism.
€ Project India as a global brand to tap the advantage of the flourishing global travel trade and the immense untapped potential of India as a destination.
€ Finally ensure that the tourists to India become physically enlivened, culturally enriched, mentally rejuvenated, spiritually elevated and, at least, €feel India from within€.
Thus, there is hardly anyone who can question the importance of travel and tourism management. An efficient management is of utmost importance to preserve the treasure of Indian tourism industry and nourish it for long to derive long term benefit from this sector. Our role should be to retain the beauty of India and present it very gently before the world.
The forecast data from the World Tourism Organization highlights that the stake of tourism volumes and related receipts, employment, Gross Domestic Product, and earnings from export is expected to shift away from the developed countries to the developing and less developed countries as an outcome of favorable economic, technological, motivational and policy factors.
There is enormous potential for creating a lot of new jobs passing travel and tourism courses. The potentiality of employment is the largest in the tourism sector in comparison with any other sector and India has the power to more than triple the number of jobs in this sector. The tourism industry has a very strong connection with the socio-economic wealth of the country. It is assumed that an investment of Rs. 1 million gives birth to 47 direct jobs and 11 indirect jobs, which overshadows the employment potential from industrial and agricultural sector.
This is the reason why many hotel management institutes are being set up for imparting education and training in this sector. The Applied Professional Training institute in Kolkata is one of the premier institutes in the country meant for travel and tourism courses.
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