• PRAKASAM.PITCHAI
• G.RAMESHKUMAR

Visiting the attractions is travel for recreational, leisure, (or) business purposes. The world tourism organization defines tourists as people “travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purpose’’. Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2011, there have been over 983 million international traveler arrivals worldwide, representing a growth of four.6% when compared to 940 million in 2010. Tourism is vital and in some cases, vital for many countries. Tourism brings in large amounts of income in payment for goods and services available, accounting for 30% of the world’s exports of service, and 6%of overall exports of goods and services. It additionally creates opportunities for employment within the service sector of the economy related to business enterprise. These service industries include hospitality service such as accommodations, including hotels and resorts: entertainment venues, such as amusements parks, casinos, shopping mall, music venues and theatre, and transportation service, such as airlines, cruise ships, and taxicabs: travel agent and tour operators. A tour operator usually combines tour and travel elements to make a vacation. They prepare itinerary. The most common example of a tour operator's product would be a flight on a charter airline and a transfer from the airdrome to a building and therefore the local representative contribute their services, all for a module prices. This paper attempts to study the problems faced by the tourist through local tour operators at Tamilnadu.

tourist arrivals, tour operators, problems faced, Tamilnadu.

"A STUDY ON PROBLEMS FACED BY THE TOURIST THROUGH LOCAL TOUR OPERATORS AT TAMILNADU", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.50-56, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRU006012.pdf

"A STUDY ON PROBLEMS FACED BY THE TOURIST THROUGH LOCAL TOUR OPERATORS AT TAMILNADU", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp50-56, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRU006012.pdf