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A New ICT Based Business Model for Tourism Industry for the Maharashtra and Goa States of India
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Tourism is the act of travel for the purpose of recreation. It is an industry of moving, housing and entertaining people. It is one of the world's largest service industries and fastest growing economic sectors in terms of generating gross revenue as well as earning of foreign exchange. Nowadays the Internet and the developments in ICTs have revolutionized the entire tourism industry all over the world. It provides new tools and enables new distribution channels to create a new business environment. In order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of transactions, to reduce the cost of transactions and to provide the one stop services to the customers, tourism market needs a new ICT based business model to grow tourism industry in the states of Maharashtra and Goa. In this paper we propose a new ICT based tourism business model that includes the modern tools of ICT which affects the tourism business as a whole.
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Tourism, Maharashtra, Goa, Information Communication Tools, Business Model.
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