Abstract:
Tourism is a sector which sustains and facilitates without creating any type of pollution. All the countries in the
world irrespective of developed or developing have been giving importance to tourism. Global tourism is now an
industry as it fetches foreign exchange as well as creates employment in each country where tourism is given
importance. Tourism has been scaling up with the space of time, despite few issues. According to the World
Tourism Organisation (UNWTO, International tourists’ movement has scaled up to 7.0 per cent in 2017 indicating
highest increase after 2009 global economic crisis. In the present days tourism is the world’s third largest export
category. The greatest advantage is that tourism facilitates to create jobs, enhances exports etc. All these issues
have been discussed at length here. In addition, in this research article few cases, from India and Sri Lanka, where
the authors (at least one of the authors) have visited are presented. The cases may be considered as innovative
tourism. Further, the contribution of tourism sector in these countries both as employment generation and foreign
exchange earnings have been highlighted here portraying sustainable economic development. So the research
paper is based both on primary and secondary study.
