Tourism isn't always simply amusement or entertainment or physical invigoration or intellectual rejuvenation. It additionally serves as a mighty device for getting rid of poverty, for finishing unemployment, for promoting talk amongst civilizations and for imparting channels wherein, streams of various traditions ought to meet and mingle. Tourism has been evolving into an ever-encompassing socio-economic phenomenon, including in the countries like India. Fast expansion in tourist movements in India, which is estimated to be over 500 million (inbound, outbound and domestic), has been a consequence of many inter-related socio-economic processes. Major factors contributing to this process are many: rapid increase in the personal/ household income; holiday and vacation time; access to a variety of information pertaining to transport, accommodation, attraction and other products; fragmentation of joint-family and education. The benefactors of this ongoing process cut across various social and economic groups and that has resulted in augmenting the tourism propensity of the people at large.