2025, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part A

author(s)
Suman Garg, Rekha Sain and Bindu Roy

abstract
The generation of new employment opportunity and economic development both are importantly fuelled up by the tourism industry. It has represented by continuous growth and diversification in the past couple of decades, and became among the largest and rapidly-growing income generating economic sectors worldwide. Sustainable tourism has upgraded the living standard of human beings connected with tourism industry, revamp the communities, eradicate poverty, boost up the wealth, and bring positive and prosperous cultural, social, technological and economic changes in the host countries. If tourism sector controlled sustainably, it can help in manifold economic development, refined local and global culture along with better products and services, which will enhance local businesses and support creation of jobs. Tourism is treated as a sector which could lead a multiplier effect across all the major sectors of economy, including railways, aviation, agriculture, transportation, retail chains, supply chains, accommodation and food industry. It indicates that this sector is having utmost importance for creation of employment, local and global economic development, cultural development, improved products and services. But COVID-19 pandemic had a long term noxious impact on tourism business, earning of tourism workers, communities along with international effect which has ruined those economy who rely on tourism after years of effort in developmet and expansion in the industry. Not only this but the students and the academicians also got impacted by Covid 19 pandemic drastically. It not only reduced the interest of the students for this stream but also put a question on their future perspective to adopt tourism as their career to earn their livelihood and for the growth as an employee, entrepreneur and industrialist. Along with this, how faculty of tourism perceives it as a professional in teaching field. In this paper, researchers will study the perceptions of students and faculty of tourism sector, that how they perceive their future in tourism industry as employee, professionals or entrepreneur after Covid 19. Also, how the career sustainability can be achieved in tourism with respect to employment and income generation and the economic growth etc.