Travel and tourism is probably the world's largest industry. Its gross global turnover is around US $ 2-3 trillion exceeds the GNP of most countries other than the USA and Japan. Its inter-functional in its operations- overlapping various industries like hospitality, leisure, surface transport, civil aviation and communications. Being a service based industry, it is also interconnected with innumerable other areas. It involves, broadly, getting people to and from their destinations and organising their stay there. The main reason for travel today are leisure & business and IT provides the majority of the industry's clientele. Greatly increased worldwide mobility in recent years has made the wants and needs proportionately more complex and exacting. The industry, in response, has had to professionalise and specialise in its services- introducing a range of multi-disciplinary skills to meet these requirements....more