A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism-related services to the general public on behalf of accommodation or travel suppliers to offer different kinds of travelling packages for each destination.
Syllabus:
Fundamentals of Tourism: Objectives, significance of geography in enhancing travel and tourism, location on the globe/map, geographical time-lag, international date line, determining time on the globe, communicating through maps and charts, Tourism Products and Resources, Travel Agency and Tour Operation Management, Travel Agency Operations, Cultural Tourism Resources of India, Business Tourism: Introduction, objectives, factors favouring tourism, economic impacts, socio- cultural impacts, political impacts, environmental impacts, trackling the negative impacts.