• Sudhir Kiran

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. Information technology (IT) is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications. Information Technology in tourism is of special significance. Information technology is used for Transport sector, Accommodation sector and Attraction sector. These technologies are used in order to find out and satisfy the ever-changing demands for tourism. The information technology (IT) services and IT enabled services industries in India have become highly visible nodes of the global economy, attracting substantial attention from international media and business interests as a prime destination for outsourcing and off shoring. The successes of these industries, as well as the recent anti-outsourcing backlash in the U.S. have produced a new global image of India as a rising economic power. It has also created the figures of the Indian ‘techie’ and call centre agent as low cost. Technical workers who represent the main threat IT-related jobs in the current decade. IT has come to be regarded as a model for India’s future tourism economic growth and E-tourism development, based on the policies of liberalization and globalization.

Tourism, players involved in tourism, Information technology, services industries Transport sector, Accommodation sector Attraction sector, E-tourism.

"A Study On Role of Technology in Tourism", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.14-21, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRO006002.pdf

"A Study On Role of Technology in Tourism", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp14-21, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRO006002.pdf