The book insights into the various issues, aspects, potentials, prospects and challenges of tourism and hospitality sector in India in the age of technological transformation and innovations. It highlights the various cutting edge emerging concepts, practices, policies, marketing strategies of tourism, hospitality and aviation industry in India. The book explores new innovations and key practices in the Indian tourism and hospitality industry. It creates a knowledge base for the students, academicians, researchers and industry practitioners by analyzing the real research gaps and latest developments, trends, and research in the Indian tourism sector. The book also discusses recent initiatives taken by the Government of India to boost this particular sector. The book covers a very important part of syllabus of higher education programs in tourism like MBA (Travel Tourism), MTTM, MTM (IGNOU), MTA, BTS, BTA.

As one of the largest service industries serving millions of international and domestic individuals yearly, it is important to understand the current trends, practices, and challenges surrounding tourism. Emphasized by the effects on people, management processes, and technological advancements, this economic and socio-cultural phenomenon’s importance is increasing worldwide. Global Trends, Practices, and Challenges in Contemporary Tourism and Hospitality Management discusses and analyzes the impacts of new trends in the tourism industry, including sub-sectors of tourism, and revisits existing trends, identifies new types and forms of tourism, and discusses the influence and use of technology. Featuring research on topics such as guest retention, predictive analysis, and ecotourism practices, the material collected is ideally designed for managers, travel agents, industry professionals, practitioners, consultants, and researchers.

The book insights into the various issues, aspects, potentials, prospects and challenges of tourism and hospitality sector in India in the age of technological transformation and innovations. It highlights the various cutting edge emerging concepts, practices, policies, marketing strategies of tourism, hospitality and aviation industry in India.The book explores new innovations and key practices in the Indian tourism and hospitality industry. It creates a knowledge base for the students, academicians, researchers and industry practitioners by analyzing the real research gaps and latest developments, trends, and research in the Indian tourism sector. The book also discusses recent initiatives taken bythe Government of India to boost this particular sector.The book covers a very important part of syllabus of higher education programs in tourism like MBA (Travel Tourism), MTTM, MTM (IGNOU), MTA, BTS, BTA.

The Hospitality and Tourism Industry, undoubtedly has been a formidable pillar as an unfailing and reliable source of revenue and capital for many nations. Many countries have been elevated from poor to appreciable economic statuses as a result of the invaluable contributions their tourism sectors have succeeded in adding to their overall economic growth. Tourism is a major contributor to the Indian economy. The tourism industry in India has a share of 0.52% of world tourism and the receipts as 0.89% of the world receipts. There have been significant improvements in the spheres of increasing air seat capacity, trains and railway connectivity to important tourist destinations, as well as connecting roads. Accommodation facilities have been redefined for the convenience of the visitors. With the industry in perspective, there is quite a vast array of key players such as businesses, modern technology and hotel marketing trends etc., that are set to take root and impact the industry as a whole in 2017 and the years to come. This paper primarily, aims and seeks to identify and examine the paradigm shifts in the tourism industry over the seeming years and how the trends have behaved in India. It seeks to examine the current trends in the hospitality and tourism industry, bring to light the challenges faced by the hospitality and tourism industry and lastly critically analyse the future prospects of the hospitality and tourism industry in India. The study employed secondary data from the Indian Tourism Corporation to ascertain its findings and conclusions. It was however revealed that globally hospitality and tourism activities are increasing by leaps and bounds hence a proportionate increase in expenditure both for tourists and service providers.

India has been in transition for the last two decades, moving from a mixed economy toward a market economy model, and the Indian hospitality industry is metamorphosing into a mature industry. It is time that the story of the Indian hospitality industry is told. The Indian Hospitality Industry: Dynamics and Future Trends tells that story, one defined by the industry’s push for growth in revenues and the struggle to match the revenue growth with profitability. The volume includes a selection of insightful chapters that offer research into the multiple dimensions of the Indian hospitality industry. The book covers many segments of the hospitality sector, including hotels, events and catering businesses, and restaurants and coffee shops, both domestic and small mom-and-pop businesses as well as international chains. The opening chapters set the tone for providing an overarching perspective on the status of the industry in terms of the macroeconomic variables and how they may have impacted the health of hospitality businesses in India. The book then goes on to explore a wide variety of issues. The editors and chapter authors are either practitioners themselves or researchers, looking at both domestic and international hospitality business in India and a wide variety of economic factors. The information divulged here will be important for stakeholders, which includes domestic and international hospitality professionals, business leaders, investors, and those in governmental positions, especially in the tourism ministry. The volume informs on the issues and challenges that that the hospitality industry in India is up against. The book looks at the dilemma of a industry that responded to the demand growth promise by ramping up supply, only to find that the investments made were received by an actual growth that was way shy of forecasts and left investors with unexpected losses on their profit & loss statements and bloodied balance sheets.

The travel industry is an enormous, diffuse worldwide industry. Natural viewpoints are minimal examined, with distributions altogether. Influences range from worldwide commitments to environmental change and sea contamination to limited impacts on jeopardized plant and creature species in safeguarded regions. Natural administration is restricted more by absence of reception than by absence of innovation. Unofficial law is more compelling than industry-based ecocertification. In agricultural countries, the travel industry can add to preservation by offering political and monetary help for public safeguarded region organizations and for protection on private and commonly claimed lands. This is significant in building versatility to environmental change. In created countries, such impacts are offset by the effects of sporting use and by political tensions from the travel industry property engineers. These connections merit research in both normal and sociologies. Research needs incorporate more complex entertainment environment as well as legitimate and social structures for preservation the travel industry.

This significant and timely book critically discusses the effects of emerging trends and shifting dynamics on the tourism and hospitality industry at local, regional, national, and international levels in a holistic manner. This book offers a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach and examines emerging topics such as technology and disruptive economies as well as the Covid-19 pandemic that are likely to change the future of the industry, either positively or negatively. The book thus advances the knowledge surrounding emergent controversies pertaining to tourism and hospitality including the growth of alternative business models (e.g., sharing economy business models), travel in light of climate change, and human resource ethics given the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), data, and algorithms. Offering a platform for the critical discussion of pertinent transformations and, as such, providing theoretical and practical insights, this book will be of great value to destination planners, policymakers, industry practitioners, educators, and upper-level students of tourism and hospitality.