Volume : 5, Issue : 4, April - 2016

Tourism Expansion: A Challenge for Environment Protection in a World of Technology

Dr. Puneet Aneja

Abstract :

<p>&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;Tourism is the world largest and fastest growing industry and almost all segments of the society participate directly and indirectly in tourism. Travel is the fundamental right of every human being. Over the past sixty years, the tourism sector has grown to become a pillar of the global economy, driven by political cooperation, social change and far - reaching advances in technology; both in communications and infrastructure. As we all know that the travelling from one place to another was very difficult in the immediate past, but now with the help of modernization and advent of technology it has become very easy and comfortable. Information Technology in tourism, such as computer reservation systems, yield management systems, and tourism-marketing systems, have been among the pioneers of leading-edge technology applications and have driven the dynamics of development in tourism services. Tourism is regarded as one of the most successful applications of electronic commerce. The present paper provides an overview of use of technology in tourism industry. In this paper an attempt has also been made to aware the tourist about the use of technology in availing the services offered by different players of tourism. Further efforts have been made to aware the tourists about the negative aspects of technology on environment specially the e-waste and excessive use of polythene.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>