Hotel career perceptions of final year hospitality degree students

Title

Hotel career perceptions of final year hospitality degree students

Creator

JayKumar V.; Balasubramanian K.; Kumar J.; Francis R.S.; Sangaran G.

Description

The Indian Hospitality Management Institutions has seen a tremendous growth in the recent years, due to the growth of the tourism and hospitality sector a large number of hotel chains has increased their expansion plans to accommodate this growth. Although the development of the tourism and hospitality industry can create greater employment opportunities, it is the role of the education institutions to produce more hospitality graduates. If todays students are to become effective practitioners of tomorrow, it is important to understand the final year hospitality degree students perception towards their future careers in the hotel industry. The purpose of this study was to investigate the career perception of final year hospitality students towards the hotel industry. This paper focuses on a sample of 60 final year students pursuing a hospitality degree at a private university in Bangalore City, India to analyze their perceptions towards hotel careers the researchers used the survey questionnaire. The findings indicated that the students willingness to work in the hotel industry after graduation was high; 41 percent of the students preferred to start their future career in the food and beverage department; awareness of the working environment; perception on internship and also negative views about the hotel careers were highlighted in the study. 2015 American Scientific Publishers. All rights reserved.

Source

Advanced Science Letters, Vol-21, No. 6, pp. 1956-1959.

Date

2015-01-01

Publisher

American Scientific Publishers

Subject

Hospitality; Hotel careers; Students perceptions

Coverage

JayKumar V., Department of Hotel Management, Christ University India, 560029, India; Balasubramanian K., School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts, Taylors University, Malaysia; Kumar J., School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts, Taylors University, Malaysia; Francis R.S., School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts, Taylors University, Malaysia; Sangaran G., School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts, Taylors University, Malaysia

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 19366612

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2015.6171

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