CP

 1.1 INTRODUCTION As a participant in this programme of Master’s in Tourism Studies and Management you are either a practicing manager or are aspiring to be one. Your first concern, therefore, is to know the tasks which you are expected to fulfill as a professional manager. These various tasks are discussed in this Unit. There is a lot of confusion over the much widely used terms, professional management and professional managers. Some researchers contend there is nothing like professional management. Management is a discipline. There are practitioners of this discipline who practice management as a profession and thus are professional managers. Just as there are doctors and lawyers by profession similarly there are professional managers. As doctors practice medicine, managers practice management. The only difference between professional managers and other professionals is that, while the latter must possess a formal degree in their discipline, a professional manager need not have ...