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Hospitality industry is growing in leaps & bounds, and as such there is a great demand for trained manpower at all levels. The industry is expected to grow at 15% annually which means 100000 trained professionals are required by the year 2015 to ensure that the staffing needs are met in the hospitality sector.
The service Industry forms 57.20% followed by 28.6% industry & 12.2 % agriculture. The tourism industry not only contributes 6.23% to the national GDP but contributes approximate 9% in employment generation. The revenue is expected to show a growth to a tune of 9.4% by 2018.
When the rooms spread of global cities is compared to that of Indian cities, It is seen that cities like Las Vegas & Amsterdam has 69.74 & 20.21 rooms per 1000 persons, where as cities like Mumbai & Delhi & NCR have only 0.50 & 0.51 rooms per person. The requirement for rooms is more in the mid market ( 36.11%) followed by first class hotels ( 23.40%) & luxury( 22.27 %) and then Budget Class hotels.( 15.89 %) extended Stay ( 2.7%). Similarly, the need of staff is also maximum with almost 42000 in first class hotels, followed by 30000 in luxury segment and approximately 28000 in budget hotels...
Expectations
Institutions- They want more students, better quality and better placements for their students.
Industry – it wants employees as per their requirement from the institutes which are ready to be
deployed.
Students- want more and better career options in life.
Opportunity Areas
There is a need to get back to the basics:-
• Grooming – personal appearance and presentation of the person.
• Body language – Proper, correct and positive body language is again important.
• Communication – Another important aspect is of good communication skills. Person capable
of speaking 2-3 or more languages correctly is always preferred.
• Curriculum – Curriculum should be modified to include the current trends in the industry and also can focus on generic skills which come out in common for all and also specialized skills that can be imparted to students for one focused trait.
• Emotional Intelligence - Hospitality industry demands lot of compromises. An individual has to balance his work, family and personal life. Handling the guests as well as colleagues takes up a lot of effort and is a challenge to be an emotionally balanced person.
• Perceptions – The perception of students towards the profession is that of glamour. But in
reality, it is a shop floor where a lot of hard work is involved which does not match the
perception of glamour quotient.
• Passion – Hotel Industry demands passion at work. Only passionate people can have the
required level of motivation to sail through the initial tough years of the career. Passion is
also required to motivate the students enough to study more than the syllabus, to get
knowledge and get specialised hand in one trait.
• Career Advancements- Hotel Industry offers the best and the fastest career advancements in the service sector. A person joining at the entry level can expect to reach a supervisory level in 2-3 years and so on so forth.
Contact Details :
Mobile: 09888048687
Email : info@ihmmohali.com
Website : http://www.ihmmohali.com
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