Certificate In Tour & Travel Agent

Tour & Travel Agent

Fundamentals of Tourism: Objectives, significance of geography in enhancing travel and tourism, location on the globe/map, geographical time-lag, international date line, determining time on the globe, communicating through maps and charts.

Tourism Products and Resources: Objectives, historical perspective of tourism in India, evolutionary changes in human lifestyle, antecendents of modern tourism, early trade routes, of the world and tourism, educational tourism in the past, religious and pilgrimage tourism.

Travel Agency and Tour Operation Management: Objectives, marketing and publicity, reservation of tickets, preparation and processing of travel documentations, training and development, conducting FIT, GIT and fam tours, coordination with public and private tour organisations, disaster preparedness.

Travel Agency Operations: Travel agency and tour operation trade: origin and development, Meaning and definition tour operators and travel agents and differential between them, Forms and types of tour operation and differentiation between them, role and contribution of travel agents and tour operators in development of travel industry, tour operation: consideration, challenges.

Cultural Tourism Resources of India: Tourism Product, Tourism Resources of India, Climate, Vegetation and Culture, Natural Resources for Tourism, Hill Stations and other Natural Resources, Tourism Circuits & Pilgrimage, Heritage Circuits of India, Manmade Resources for Tourism, Emerging Trends in Tourism.

Business Tourism: Introduction, objectives, factors favouring tourism, economic impacts, socio- cultural impacts, political impacts, environmental impacts, trackling the negative impacts.