Hospitality & Tourism Industry

In the annals of history, "Tourism" in India flourished to a great height with the advent of Globalization in 1991. Globalization and technology have given a new dimension to all sectors of business, especially the Hospitality Industry.

Today, businesses in the Hospitality industry can generally be divided into four categories:

• Accommodation
• Food & Beverage
• Recreation
• Travel & Tourism

Every category under the umbrella of "hospitality" further contains many different sub-sectors and operators. While all sectors are interconnected and reliant on each other, each one of them is unique in its own way.

Hotel management is one of the lucrative and promising career options of the present-day scenario. Below are some statistics that define the demand for Hotel Management in India:

• Tourism in India accounts for 9.6% of the GDP and is the 3rd largest foreign exchange earner for the country.
• The tourism and hospitality sector's direct contribution to GDP in 2016 was US$ 71.53 billion.
• The hotel management salary in India is also really attractive and satisfactory in nature.

According to the 2016 Trends & Statistics survey by the British Hospitality Association (BHA), around 1.9 million people now work in the industry.

10 Reasons Which Substantiate That Hospitality Jobs Are Great

1. There is never a dull moment
Having a job in the hospitality industry means you get to have a wide range of opportunities at work. You never stop learning and you never stop growing.

2. It's creative
As well as being a people-oriented industry, hospitality is creative. You are creating a product — food, drink, or an experience — and there's always scope to dream up new ways of making it more enjoyable for your customers.

3. It opens a door to the world
Every country has a hospitality industry, and the skills you learn here are readily transferable, making a hospitality career an easy key to discovering new countries, cultures and people.

4. There's no need to get stuck
There is such enormous scope within the industry that there's never any need to get stuck in one position.

5. You can take on early responsibility
Along with rapid horizontal movement, you can also move up the ladder very quickly in hospitality.

6. Work anywhere
According to STR Global (2012), there are over 187,000 hotels in the world with 17.5 million rooms to be serviced. You can move to any city, town or suburb and find a job that values your experience.

7. It's one of the world's fastest growing industries
According to the World Travel & Tourism Council's Economic Impact Report, travel and tourism added 7.2 million jobs globally in 2015 while contributing more than $7.2 trillion to the world's GDP.

8. You don't have to settle for low pay
Entry-level roles may start near minimum wage, but it's easy to advance into positions with greater responsibility — and a larger salary — quickly if you're willing to work hard.

9. You get to feel loved and appreciated
From helping hotel guests to simply greeting restaurant goers, you'll savor the feeling of knowing you just made someone's day.

10. You get to express your own creativity at work
You get to let your own personality and style shine through in the way you treat guests and prepare and present dishes.

The hotel industry has become one of the most result-oriented fields in the country and worldwide. It's a fascinating profession with a bright future. With the expansion of hotels, the requirement for professionals has increased impressively, giving graduates many job options after completing a Hotel Management course: