Tourism: Fastest Growing International Industries

Vineet Kumar Verma; Naila Ansari

Volume : V, Issue : XII, December - 2015

Tourism: Fastest Growing International Industries

Vineet Kumar Verma, Naila Ansari

Abstract :

Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. It has become an important aspect of globalization, is intrinsic to our lifestyles and has had a profound impact on peoples of the world and the environments in which they live. The present informative paper will address an anthropological perspective as one of the most critical disciplines on tourism and most innovative research in the field of tourism. It has transformed host communities, social life, the natural environment, local economies, artistic productions, and politics. In this paper, study highlight several of the key themes anthropologists have covered in the study of tourism. Conclusively, it can be said based on the study of paper indicates that anthropological perspective on tourism is cross–cultural, and includes an examination of the present social, political and economical theology of globalization, with a clearly articulated emphasis on the context–appropriate rebuilding or retention of tourism economies; to examine not only the social, economic, environmental and cultural consequences of tourism on communities but those communities’ responses to it as well.