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A Study on Consumer Behaviour Towards Selected Fast Moving Consumer Goods in Thiruvallur District
R. Dhanasekar
Pages: 1-14 | First Published: 05 Jan 2021
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The affirmation styles, tastes, and needs of customers are exclusively as opposed to from that of clients. While it becomes glaring that natural and metropolitan Indian has changed fundamentally speedier than the agricultural and strong customer due to bleeding edge openness of media and advancing lifestyle, country clients aren't some distance at the back of. Creators face various burdens in advancing their things in commonplace and strong areas in light of the fact that most of the natural and metropolitan customers obtain low getting, have low degrees of capability, low levels of logo focus, decree and conveyance centers. The clients are end various issues in picking their fast moving buyer stock. The fundamental sporadic assessing method is used for the assessment. To have the depiction from different client mental system for security relies upon the hypothesis bunch looking at is never super quick Moving Consumer Goods purchaser. Fast Consumer Goods Campaign occurs inside amicable circles and outperformed on from ally to look, thusly procuring a positive degree of trust from purchasers and hazard related with spreading viral messages can't be controlled. Thusly, associations need to recollect that it is fundamental for make the splendid response for their things and organizations due to the truth individuals forward those messages to their own friends and family and a horrible response can destroy a viral advancing exertion and push the customers from searching for the thing.

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Tourist Destination Satisfaction: Analysis of Kanyakumari the Spot with Scenic Beauty and Spiritual Temples
Dr. D. Gunaseelan
Pages: 15-22 | First Published: 05 Jan 2021
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The tourist destination is a collective product; it plays a major part in developing the socio-economical development of that region. Kanyakumari is a destination at the southern end of India, the tourist spot famous for its scenic beauty and spiritually valued temples. The paper discusses demographic feature of the tourist, and their satisfaction in visiting the destination. A well framed questionnaire organized with set of questions to exhibit the preference and expectations of the tourist visiting is circulated among the tourist people. The data collected from the tourist people are to be sorted and analyzed with statistical tool. The study helps to exhibit the pulse of the travelers towards their perception about the spot and opinion about their requirements at the spot. This fundamentally helps tourist and the local government bodies to enhance the tourist spots qualitatively to make it always a place for recreation and rejuvenation.

Keywords: Destination, Kanyakumari, Satisfaction, Traveller, Tourism

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“Survive, Revive and Thrive” A Study on the Leadership and Team Management in the Hospitality Industry
Seby. P. Mathews
Pages: 23-28 | First Published: 05 Jan 2021
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Hospitality means dealing with human beings in a very moderate and friendly manner. Interpersonal skills, system skills, product and service knowledge, customer knowledge, and personal skills are the requirements to build a team in the hospitality industry. The hospitality sector includes a massive number of businesses, ranging from hotels and other types of accommodation to bars, restaurants, snack bars, and discotheques. Today hospitality and tourism industry adds a good percentage of revenue to the state and for every organization to execute well they need to be highly efficient effective and enthusiastic. Relational skills are the performances and maneuvers a person uses to interact with others fruitfully. In the business world, the term denotes to an employee's ability to work well with others. Interpersonal skills range from communication and snooping to attitude and deportment. System skills are developed capacities used to understand, monitor, and advance socio-technical systems. Judgment and decision making, considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most correct one. Product knowledge is an essential sales skill. Understanding the products' features permits you to present their benefits accurately and convincingly. Customers respond to enthusiastic sales staff who are passionate about their products and excited to share the profits with them. Customer knowledge is the amalgamation of experience, value, and insight evidence which is desirable, created, and absorbed during the contract and exchange between the clientele and enterprise. Personal skills are accepted as soft skills that are not easy to teach although not impossible. They are also known as interpersonal or even 'people' skills. Examples include constancy, compliance, motivation, problem-solving, and questioning skills. The present study throws light on the prominence of a noble leader in the organization and team management skills that one must possess in the hospitality industry.
Keywords: Leadership, team management, hospitality, skills, performance.

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A Study on Mughal Art and Architecture in India
I. M. Karthikeyan
Pages: 29-34 | First Published: 05 Jan 2021
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The workmanship and engineering, planned by Mughal sovereigns in sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth Century was the Landmark of Indian culture and legacy. As an Islamic administration Mughal sovereign’s enlivened Indian subcontinent with garish magnificence adjusting Indo-Persian and Indo-Islamic example. The northern India and the regions of present Pakistan were built up the castles and Mughal working by the leader of fugal individually. The best making building is known as Agra Fort .i.e, Red post at Delhi and the amazed "Taj Mahal".
Keywords: Mughal Art, Architecture, Islamic

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Role of Rural Tourism in Lifting People out of Poverty
V. Ramachandran
Pages: 35-43 | First Published: 05 Jan 2021
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Country the movement business is related to social/normal/social activities. This helps with remembering all fundamental territories for the movement business. Provincial the movement business assists with having extraordinary associations between the host country and the visitor. It is such a the movement business where neighborhood occupants invite travelers to visit their organizations with the plan of for the time being comfort. The close by inhabitants secure a kind of pay by selling neighborhood food and refreshments, close by gatherings, close by articulations, close by created works, neighborhood shops, etc the commonplace neighborhood will propel their own particular manner of life, lifestyle and food style to different collection of explorers. Through this neighborhood travel industry the specific district would procure some business similarly as the work opportunity to neighborhood tenants. "Basically half of the quantity of occupants in the world lives in rural regions and for the most part in a state of dejection" this assertion doubtlessly helps us with making more commonplace work in the country region to outline the smoother life. "The movement business offers work to the most heartbreaking of needy individuals. Gram seller gains something. Auto truck driver secures something. Pakoda seller obtains something and Tea trader in like manner procures something" this shows that the movement business is one of the business which helps in poverty decline. Dejection diminishing can in like manner be called as poverty alleviation. It is a lot of measures in both financial and magnanimous those are proposed to perpetually lift people out of destitution. Dejection moderation happens by and large in light of commonly financial turn of events. Destitution facilitating also incorporates improving the everyday conditions of people who are as of now poor. From one perspective, India is home to megacities like Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi, where the greater part of people approach a reasonable lifestyle; of course, there are a couple of states in India where people are not moving toward the fundamental accommodations and are living under Poverty line. As per the public family prosperity survey 2015-2016 penetrated down specific states "Chhattisgarh, Manipur, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam" are the most disastrous states where over 40% of people are underneath poverty line. There are various clarifications behind the justification poverty related with the shortfall of Education, Unemployment, over people, Debt, Inflation, Inequality, Lack of Infrastructure, and believe it or not there is another feature talk about is the Limited furthest reaches of the Government. In real, the close by neighborhood more conspicuous data towards culture/environment and the movement business objective, when the ideal stage is given to the local neighborhood GOVERNMENT or by any NGO; their responsibility towards progress of the movement business will lead into a beneficial outcome or result. Accordingly the need is to develop a fair association between neighborhood and the movement business should be locked in. This article deals about the meaning of rural the movement business in desperation decline.
Keywords: Rural, Community, Tourism, Poverty, Culture, Tradition, Economic, Development.

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The Role of Food Tourism in Madurai
N. Ramesh
Pages: 44-48 | First Published: 05 Jan 2021
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Food is the fundamental thing human necessities and as such it is an unclear piece of the improvement business. It also addresses one of the fundamental relationships during a tourist trip. The uncommon culinary custom of Madurai has been pulling in taste buds from across the globe for quite a while and the territory is tirelessly changing into a gastronomic goal in the advancement business guide of late. Adjoining its out-of-date asylums, obvious accomplishments, and heritage trail many are visiting the city to experience the legitimate Madurai food. The target of this paper is to pick the piece of Madurai food past this urgent occupation it plays in the advancement business, to see how it contributes to building up the proportion of explorers in Madurai and their satisfaction with the adventurer thing and if food can lift the chance of the wayfarer interest in Madurai and toward looking out for the necessities of the voyagers. To achieve these destinations different pieces of the advancement business in Madurai will be taken apart, for instance, the viewpoints in joining a traveler trip in Madurai, the explorer needs, and the different pieces of the improvement business. The consequences of the appraisal will depict and expand key viewpoints on the most capable technique to improve the chance of the advancement of business in Madurai.
Keywords: Invitingness, The Advancement Business, Public Cooking, Food, Explorer Needs

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