{"product_id":"9780198060017","title":"Tourism Operations and Management","description":"\u003cp\u003eTourism: Operations and Management is a comprehensive textbook, designed especially for undergraduate degree\/diploma students of hotel management and tourism studies. The book explores core concepts of tourism and explains them through numerous examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with an introduction to the travel and tourism industry, the book goes on to discuss various types of tourism; tourism infrastructure like accommodation, food and beverage, telecommunications; tourist transport (air, road, rail, and water); Indian and international tourism organizations. The book explains how to set up travel agencies and tour operations and their role in the tourism industry. Key topics like tourism product; tourism marketing; customer service skills; economic, environmental, socio-cultural and political impacts of tourism; and planning, managing and developing a tourist attraction are discussed at length. The emerging trends in tourism like GDS, e-ticketing, web marketing are explored. Chapters on travel formalities and regulations; airline geography; and itinerary planning enhance the readers understanding of the practical operational aspects and make the book useful for practitioners as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudents of hotel management, hospitality, and tourism studies will find this book useful for its coverage of the key concepts of tourism operations and management explained through industry-related examples, formats, and photographs. With its practice-oriented approach, the book would also be useful to practitioners like travel agents and tour operators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022943830256,"sku":"9780198060017","price":26.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780198060017_p0.jpg?v=1763666627","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780198060017","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}