Tourism

  

                                        TOURISM

Tourism  plays an important role in promoting local culture and traditions.  The word tourism was first time in the oxford dictionary in 1811. This release   that the word  tourism  did not appear  in the English language  until the yearly 19^th century , and the word tour  was more closely  associated with the idea of the voyage or peregrination or a circuit .then with the idea of an  individual being temporarily  away from home for pleasure purpose a significant feature of the use  of the word tourist came into being. In Sanskrit literature there is found different terms for tourism derived from the root atan, which mean leaving home for some time to other places. Tourism is not new phenomenon for Hindus. They had different types of tourism known as  deshatan(going out to other countries primarily  for economic gain)    and    tirthatan  (going  to the places of religious  importance) paryatan  (going out for pleasure and knowledge ) The  economist and other social sciencetist that make forecasts concerning the nature of human  society  in the future seem to indicate that all modern countries are progressing  quite rapidly towards life styles which favor the growth and development of tourism  .for example , factors such as increased real personal income , technological improvements  and manufacturing has resulted  in more  productivity per worker, also increase  in free time with a decrease in the  work week ,predictions for longer vacations in most industry,  bigger  levels  of education, the development of vacation leaves for person outside the field of education growth of interest in cultural matters that include appreciation of the cultures of other peoples and other places, technological  development  such as large and capacitors subsonic  aircraft  deriving  more comfort  and at least  stable , of not decreasing  fares, improvements in communications ,and awareness of other countries  and place etc .favor the growth of  travel and tourism .the derived tourism comprises institutions of traveling ,lodging ,boarding and shopping . If we talk about leisure time only, in the western world and more in the united state the amount of leisure time available to an individual has in general, increased since World War 2.  the work week has  decreased  from sixty hours to forty- eight hours , then  to forty hours per week , and for some occupations ,the work  week in 1988 already stands at only thirty to twenty hours .tourism is often  considered  as the” golden goose that lays the golden egg”-a source of income and stimulus  for more employment .