Includes bibliography (p.309-310) and index

Travel agencies play important and a significant role in tourism industry and its development. They not only take care of trade but also understand needs and requirements of customer, they also advice and inform about destination to the prospective customer. A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism related services to the public on behalf of suppliers such as airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways and package tours. In addition to dealing with ordinary tourists most travel agencies have a separate department devoted to making travel arrangements for business travelers and some travel agencies specialize in commercial and business travel only. There are also travel agencies that serve as general sales agents for foreign travel companies, allowing them to have offices in countries other than where their headquarters are located. Tourism had now established itself as an expanding industry all over the world. This book is the on the subject and comprehensively discuss various aspects of travel and tourism. It also elaborately and systematically delineates the functions of tour operators to tourism business. Hope this book will be very helpful to the students in tourism sectors and readers as well. - Provided by the publisher

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