Impact of emerging information technology in the field of tourism management in India and across

Fastest growing field of information technology has a wide impact on tourism management both rural and urban. Although India has been a great tourist country since several centuries, but since last few decades many emerging information technology aspects such as internet, virtual private network, online banking, computerized reservation system etc have made a remarkable boom in the field of tourism management in India. A number of tourism management activities like tourist registration, tour planning, ticketing and payments are directly related to the various forms of information technology e.g. Databases, websites, payment gateways and mobile computing. Extensive use of IT in tourism proved to be of great importance for tourists and travel agencies both. This paper summarizes key issues relating to the growth of tourism in India as an impact of IT.