Empirical Review of Tourism in International Context

Bhattia (1995), in his study states that tourism development made a detailed study of the tourism phenomenon in its numerous aspects. It explores various concepts in tourism, what makes it possible and how tourism is an important factor for the prosperity of a nation since tourism as a highly complex phenomenon; various disciplines are involved in its study. Some basic disciplines such as economics, psychology, sociology and geography contributed a great deal to it. Disciplines of management and marketing, techniques of planning, statistics and market research are also involved and are used extensively by tourism enterprises.