• Dr. Udai Bhan Trivedi
• Mr. Manish Kumar
• Mr. Santosh Kumar Sharma

Tourism as an industry has evolved as one of the largest and lucrative industry in Indian economy. It is regarded as one of the most effective instruments for national integration and harmony and leading towards social transformation and upliftment of the rural poor. The success of the tourism sector is highly influenced by the supporting industries such as hotels, transportation, communication, banking, ICT and so on. Today ICT plays very important role in each fields. Tourism was one of the first sectors to embrace Information and communication Technology (ICT). ICT Enabled various process reengineering in tourism sector so it is crucial to the tourism industry and its success. IT has bought with it a number of changes and challenges that affect business and tourism. Today through the, internet anyone can get world wide information within a fraction of seconds. Frequent technological updates are adding new trends in different field which tend to improve a lot in respective fields. Use of ICT for tourism industry has increased enormously over past few years. Tourism is currently one of the fastest growing industries across the world. It is mostly a service industry because it renders services to various classes of people. Hence it is largely an information product. This paper deals with how ICT is useful in tourism, pros and cones of ICT in tourism, and innovative trends of ICT like CRS, GIS, Online WOM, DMS, etc., in tourism

CRS, DMS, e-Tourism, GIS, ICT, Online WOM

"ROLE OF ICT IN TOURISM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.897-901, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006160.pdf

"ROLE OF ICT IN TOURISM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp897-901, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006160.pdf