Paper I: Tourism Management - B Com Part I Syllabus - Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner(MGSU, Bikaner)

Unit – I

Introduction to tourism and tourism industry, Definitions: tourism, tourist, traveler, excursion, tourist definition, tourism products and their features, type of tourist.

Unit – II

Brief history and development of tourism in India and Abroad. Reasons for growth of tourism, tourism terminology.

Unit – III

Frontier Travel formalities: Passport, VISA, Customer clearance, Currency Regulation, health regulation etc. Issuing of passport, VISA and its types, Hurdles in tourism industry.

Unit – IV

Tourism organizations: introduction and function, international organizations like WTO, PATA, IATA, ICAO. Domestic tourism organization like ITDC, TAAI, IATO, etc.

Unit – V

Tourism Measurement: meaning, needs and importance, methods of measurement in international tourism, problems in measurement and their solutions. Important tourism abbreviations used in tourism literature like APT, SVC, HLTH, etc. Airport codes and city codes.