Tour Planning and Management: A Career Guide

The business of operating tours, and entertaining, attracting and accommodating tourists is an important area of tourism. Tours are operated to cater to individual tastes and preferences of travelers. Tours can also be organized as per the genre of tourism, such as winter tourism can target ski destinations while ecotourism will strive to benefit the economic development and empowerment of local communities. In movie tourism, tours to film locations and television sets are the prime objective, and in volunteer tourism, travel is usually done to less fortunate areas and facilitates assimilation of the travelers into local cultures. Tour planning and management is an upcoming area of tourism. This book elucidates the concepts and innovative models around prospective developments with respect to the planning and management of tours. It aims to shed light on some of the unexplored aspects of this field. It is a complete source of knowledge on the present status of this important field.