2. Introduction
Travel and Tourism one of the world's largest foreign
exchange earner among industries, provides
employment directly to millions of people worldwide
and indirectly through many associated service
industries. A very wide industry, it includes Government
tourism departments, Immigration and customs
services, travel agencies, airlines, tour operators, hotels
etc and many associated service industries such as
airline catering or laundry services, Guides,
Interpreters, Tourism promotion and sales etc.
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4. Job Prospects
Being a very wide field, the scope of employment in tourism
sector is very bright and the potential is still largely untapped.
Career opportunities exist both in the public and private
sector. In the public sector, there are opportunities in the
Directorates and Departments of Tourism of the center and
the state as Officers, information assistants, Tourist guides
etc. Another good prospectus for qualified tourism
professionals are in the private sector with travel agencies,
tour operators, airlines, hotels, transport and cargo
companies etc. The opening up of the skies to private airlines
and their emerging tie-ups with foreign airlines has removed
bottlenecks in the transport and communication network
resulting in easy flow of domestic and foreign tourists in the
country.
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5. A Travel Agent earns an average salary of Rs 220,909
per year.
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6. Institutes
Amity Institute of Travel and Tourism, Amity
university,Noida , Delhi NCR.
Suryadatta College of Hospitality Management &
Travel Tourism(SCHMTT),Pune , Maharashtra.
Kerala Institute Tourism and Travel Studies
(KITTS),Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala.
Indian Institute of Tourism & Travel Management,
Gwalior,Madhya Pradesh.
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