Tourism Education: An Emerging Essential

Contents: Preface. I. Tourism education: 1. Tourism education in changing tourism business environment/Krishan K. Boora and Meenu Dutt. 2. Tourism education as a front runner in the race for pocketing the tourist dollar/Rama Kanta Mishra. 3. Professionalizing the tourism education/Ranbir Singh. 4. Re-engineering tourism industry through information technology initiatives/Vikram Singh, Dalbir Singh and Ranbir Singh. 5. Tourism education and training programmes/A.B. Kharpas. 6. Re-designing tourism education: linkage between academic institutions and tourism industry/Filipe Rodrigues e Melo. 7. Tourism education and tourism industry in India/Kavita A. Jain. 8. Tourism education in India: a qualitative and quantitative analysis/S.P. Bansal and Prashant Kumar Gautam. 9. Preparing tourism professionals through educational tours: the Indian context/Ravi Bhushan Kumar. 10. Changing trends in job opportunities for tourism professionals in tourism industry: a case study/Mrs. Dulari R. Qureshi. 11. Linking tourism programmes with industry/S.S. Boora and Ajit Singh. II. Case studies: 12. Qualitative assessment of tourism education for Indian tour operating sector/Vinay Chauhan. 13. HRD in Indian hospitality industry: an analysis of changing dimension/Mohinder Chand. 14. Quality of work life in hotel industry of Jammu/Vinay Chauhan and Ms. Suvidha Khanna. 15. Tourism education in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University: its impact on tourism industry of Aurangabad--a case study/Miss. Farah Naaz Gauri. 16. New tourism avenues in India: health tourism/Satish Kumar and M.K. Sehgal. 17. Case study on Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur/Umendra Narayan Shukla. 18. An appraisal of tourism in Haryana/Sultan Singh and Ankeshwar Parkash. 19. Impact of tourism on floral diversity of Dwarahat hills of Kumaon Himalaya, Uttaranchal/Deepak Kholiya, Laxmi Rawat and Preeti Joshi. 20. Kurukshetra as an international tourist destination--opportunities and challenges/Virender Singhal. 21. Role of museums in the promotion of tourism: a case study of Jammu region/Umesh Choudhary and Deepak Raj Gupta. 22. Food hygiene and sanitation: the perennial problem in hotels/Vinti Davar. Index.