E-tourism-Paradigm Shift

Authors

  • Vidyullata V Pawar VPIMSR, Sangli
  • S.D Mundhe Dept. of MCA, SIMCA, Nare

Keywords:

Central Reservation System, Global Distribution Systems, E-Ticketing, Global Distribution SystemsCloud Technology

Abstract

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure, or business purposes, usually of a limited duration. Tourism is commonly associated with trans-national travel, but may also refer to travel to another location within the same country.. E-tourism is the digitization of all the processes and value chains in the tourism, travel, hospitality and catering industries that enable organizations to maximize their efficiency and effectiveness. Journey of tourism to e-tourism start at year 1962 with Central reservation system followed by Airline Computer Reservations Systems, e-ticketing ,Graphical information system and cloud technology service in tourism.

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Published

2014-05-31

How to Cite

[1]
V. V. Pawar and S. Mundhe, “E-tourism-Paradigm Shift”, Int. J. Comp. Sci. Eng., vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 164–167, May 2014.

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