Vol. 10, No. 1, February, 2020 Bi-Annual ISSN No. 2278-8379 TOURISM INNOVATIONS An International Journal of Indian Tourism and Hospitality Congress (ITHC) Chief Editors Prof. S. P. Bansal Vice Chancellor Himachal Pradesh Technical University, Hamirpur, H.P. India. Dr. Sandeep Kulshrestha Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management, (IITTM) Indian Tourism and Hospitality Congress www.tourismcongress.wordpress.com Tourism Innovations: An International Journal of Indian Tourism and Hospitality Congress (ITHC) Copyright : Indian Tourism and Hospitality Congress (ITHC) Reproduction in whole or in part, in any form without written permission is prohibited. ISSN : 2278-8379 VOLUME : 10 NUMBER : 1 Publication Schedule: Twice a year : February-August Disclaimer: The views expressed in the articles are those of the contributors and not necessarily to the editorial board and publisher. Authors are themselves responsible for any kind of Plagiarism found in their articles and any related issue. Claims and court cases only allowed within the jurisdiction of HP, India Published by: Bharti Publications in Association with Indian Tourism and Hospitality Congress (ITHC) All Correspondence Should be Address to : Managing Editor Tourism Innovations Bharti Publications 4819/24, 3rd Floor, Mathur Lane Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002 Ph: 011-2324-7537 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Editor’s Note On the occasion of National Conference of Indian Tourism and Hospitality Congress at Auro University, Surat (Gujarat) we are delighted to announce the first issue of tenth edition ofTourism Innovations-the Journal of Indian Tourism and Hospitality Congress. It is truly a delightful moment to reflect the evolving issues of tourism with contemporary date, high excellence and original research papers together with significant and insightful reviews. This journal aims to be intellectually vibrant, engaging and open, and to the same time integrative and inspiring. Over the last few decades, Tourism studies has evolved highly disintegrated and concentrated into different theme capacities, or strengths. The academics consideration has resulted in the publications of hundreds of referred articles in media. nonetheless Tourism Innovations is specifically devoted to evolving subjects in tourism and hospitality industry not only in India but all across the globe. Our special thanks to all the members of the Advisory Board and the reviewers who have endlessly helped and reinforced in many ways and have given their valuable time and other commitments. Lastly, our heartiest gratitude to all the contributors for their solid support for research creativities, and all the readers who have continuously shown their interest in the concerned journal. We look forward to accept your manuscripts and fruitful response for more developments. There is no doubt that currently global tourism and hospitality is passing through the most difficult time in view of Coronavirus outbreak and economic slowdown in some countries. Here we envisage great role of research in shaping the industry in such tough time. ‘Tourism will fight back and survive’ by going through this phrase ‘domestic and regional tourism’ can be seen as tourism saviors. Chief Editors Prof. S.P. Bansal Dr. Sandeep Kulshrestha TOURISM INNOVATIONS An International Journal of Indian Tourism and Hospitality Congress (ITHC) Vol. 10, No. 1, February, 2020 Contents Editor’s Note iii Research Papers 1. An Analytical Study of IRCTC in Promoting Tourism and Upgrading Catering Services 1-10 towards Travelling Commuters in Indian Railways at Gwalior Railway Station Manoj Kumar Yadav 2. Rural Tourism: A Paradigm Shift to Emerging Socio-Economic Challenges 11-17 Suneel Kumar & Shekhar 3. Tourism Management in UTs of J & K and Ladakh Post Abrogation of Article 370 of Indian 18-20 Constitution G. G. Saxena & Ambuj Saxena 4. Economic Impacts of Tourism Upon the Quality of Life of Residents of Anand District of 21-31 Gujarat State Subhashish Mishra & Amar Deshpande 5. Tour Operators and World Heritage Sites: Do they have Shared Interests? 32-38 Monisha Juneja & Malini Singh 6. Impact of Krishna Pushkaralu on Developing New Tourist Destinations 39-43 P. Sravan Kumar & Rajshree Bhargava 7. Identifying Tourists’ Destination Loyalty: A Case Study of Gujarat 44-52 Rajul Malay Gandhi & Renuka Garg 8. Creating Shareholders Wealth Through Mergers and Acquisitions: A Long Term Study with Special 53-60 Reference to Indian Hotel and Tourism Sector Vinod M Lakhwani & Sangeeta Jauhari Tourism Innovations Vol. 10, No. 1, February, 2020, pp. 1-10 An Analytical Study of IRCTC in Promoting Tourism and Upgrading Catering Services towards Travelling Commuters in Indian Railways at Gwalior Railway Station Manoj Kumar Yadav Abstract IRCTC is a subsidiary wing of Indian Railways responsible for ticketing, promoting tourism and providing catering services to travelling commuters of Indian Railways. For better control and effective management, the Indian railway network is decentralized into 16 railway zones. It sells around more than 5 lakh tickets everyday which makes the IRCTC site second busiest site in the world. Apart front ticketing, it also manages tourism and catering related services for domestic and international tourists and travellers. Besides conventional tourism, nowadays it also offers adventure tourism and customized tours. Recently, IRCTC launched “Rail Tourism India” to provide direct catering and tourism packages to its users. This research study reveals about the challenges faced by IRCTC and what measures IRCTC can take for making the travel passengers’ meal experience and moment of truth better. Tools like One way ANOVA and Descriptive analysis are used to draw the inferences. Keywords: Rail Tourism, PSU, MICE, Moment of Truth, Meal Experience, Single-Window Platform Introduction the newly formed IRCTC. Nowadays IRCTC organizes The network of Indian Railways is third largest railway budget and deluxe tour packages for domestic as well as network in the world. The milestone in the growth phase foreign tourist via different high speed and luxury trains. of Indian Railways can be traced back in year 1853 when it started its first journey of 53 km from Mumbai to Thane. As compare to any other mode of transport, Railway is considered as cheapest and affordable mode of transport for millions of passengers, particularly for long run journey. For better management, Indian Railway is divided into 16 railway zones and 73 railway divisions throughout the nation. Indian Railway plays a significant role in the social and economic growth of India. Upto 2013, Indian Railways served to 1.4 crore passengers every day and during the year 2015 it increased to 8.101 billion passengers. As a result, the revenue generation of Indian Railways is Source- India Tourism Statistics at a Glance, 2017 also increased gradually. IRCTC is a subsidiary body of Apart from travel related activities, earlier Indian Indian Railways responsible for managing catering and Railways was also managing its catering services through tourism services besides ticketing. The revenue growth departmental catering units available on different Railway rate of IRCTC, from year 2003 to 2013, can be seen in the Zones. In broad spectrum, the work profile of railway below given bar chart. Conventionally, ticketing is the from ticketing to catering was vast and completely major revenue source for Indian Railways but as time different in nature. As a result complaints from travelling passes Indian Railways increases its revenue sources commuters are obvious but these complaints started particularly by offering tourism and catering oriented increasing day-by-day, particularly meal and beverage services. Initially, catering venture was handled by related complaints. To strengthen the marketing efforts Indian Railways and its Zonal points but from the year and service capabilities in the areas of rail catering, 1999 the responsibility of catering was handed over to Manoj Kumar Yadav Lecturer, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Gwalior, M.P. Vol. 10, No. 1, February, 2020 1 ISSN No. 2278-8379 Tourism Innovations An Analytical Study of IRCTC in Promoting Tourism... hospitality and passenger amenities a corporate entity Besides railway catering, IRCTC also manages its catering IRCTC was formed. services at various offices, institutions and at high-end IRCTC, formed on 27th September 1999, is a Schedule “B” events and functions. Apart from catering, IRCTC also PSU Enterprise under the direct control and supervision promotes tourism sector by different means of efforts, of Ministry of Railways. But it obtained the certificate for for instance introduce new trains, air fare arrangement, commencement of Business on 2nd December 1999 and extension of route of exiting trains, new tour packages, full flesh functioning was started on 01 August 2001. organization of MICE events and so forth. IRCTC is an extended arm of Indian Railways to upgrade, All above given areas of development collectively professionalize and manage the catering and hospitality promote tourism and hospitality services for Indian services of Indian Railways on railway stations, trains, national and international tourist arrivals. But yet the and at other locations. IRCTC was formed with an aim and share of Indian in International Tourism Index is floating objective to promote domestic and international tourism around1.2% which is extremely low as compare to