International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 4

Hospitality and tourism industry

  • Author:
  • Robil Sahni, Esha Mehta
  • Total Page Count: 25
  • Page Number: 118 to 142

MBA Lecturer, Himalayan Institution of Management, Kala-amb, H.P

Online published on 14 November, 2013.

Abstract

Nowadays, tourism is always regarded as an important means to benefit local communities. The success of the developed countries in expanding tourism industry has inspired many developing countries Based this article attempts to track the progress of tourism and hospitality development. The Government and private sector had invested a lot of money in providing public infrastructure and facilities to boost the the industry. Despite the massive amount of money spent on tourism and hotel industry development, no study had been conducted to relate industry spending with the impact of these developments towards the local economy and socio-culture. The main focus of the study is to explore and identify economic, environmental and socio-cultural impacts of tourism and hotel industry development. So here we have studied regarding the society awareness and their attitude or belief in respect of their contribution

Keywords

Tourism development, economic opportunity, benefit