True Face of Hospitality Studies

A Colourful life, can cruise, Career at luxury hotels, fly all over the world as Air Hostess, become entrepreneur, Profession at Corporate houses…… Options are plenty.

Visiting travelers and customers are expecting high in regard of the value to their payment. The service industry requires skilled employees to meet out their desires and to cater specialized services. This is the root cause for the establishment of the Hotel management training institutes all over the world.

Curriculum
Curriculum pattern changes as per the affiliation of the institute, but it is designed on the basis of the current requirements of the service industry. Everyone who enters in to the hospitality studies have a thought that it is all about cooking. Other than culinary arts the programme consists of four major operational subjects and few allied subjects. The four operational subjects are Food production, F&B Service, Accommodation and Front office. The duration of the course depends upon the board or university. Besides the theoretical papers the Operational subjects consists of practical papers in which the students will be trained in the laboratories by a professional trainer. Some universities include project works in the curriculum there by helping the students to get into the current happenings.

Training
“Observation = Application” is the mantra of training. Hands on Training are the discerned fact of hospitality studies. Industrial Exposure Training (IET) is also the part of curriculum. The students can be trainees at various leading star hotels under different departments. The IET period varies from 3 months to 6 months, based on the curriculum or the skill based requirements of the student.

During this period, students will receive the culinary knowledge from the Training Kitchen of the college. The students attain different serving styles, menu compiling, mixing, selling techniques by thorough practical activities at Training Restaurant and Mock Bar.

Campus Placement
Placement service is the heart throb of the hospitality education. Revised wage packages in the hotel industry show interest among the students to join the industry. Group discussion, Product Knowledge test, Personal interview are conducted in the campus interview. In Kitchen the selected candidates are asked for the Food trial at the concerned hotel. As per the test result, their salary and position will be fixed by the Organisation. In F&B Service, the candidates have to do menu planning and lay the cover on table as per the planned menu. As per the quality of the candidates the organisation will decide their position, Entry level, Management Trainee, Hotel Operational Trainee, Executive Assistant etc., .

Guidance for choosing hotel schools
Check the college have any affiliation with Universities, National Bodies etc.,
Check who is running and managing the institution
Faculty Profiles
Infrastructure
Students beneficiaries activities done by the hotel management school
Check the worthiness of the institution for your valuable payment
Analyze the family strength (money) and your potential
Norms of the college
Placement Services

My golden words for one who wishes to opt for the hospitality courses,
Hundreds of training institutes in India, among only 5 - 8% are decent to good.

Needs lot of patience, competence, eagerness to learn, application of knowledge, hard work…..

These are the secrets to succeed in the hospitality arena.
All the very best for choosing hospitality studies / hotel schools…. Touch with me on any queries.

Mushrooming Catering stalls / Institutes

Yes, you could see that while you walk around the streets and bazaars!!! Still you baffling, I mean the minnow catering institutes mushrooming every nooks & corners of the cities. With little equipments easily obtaining the approval and starting the catering institutes, even though don’t have any basic necessity. How the examining body tendering recognition to the worthless institutes..????...!!!, it’s one of the standing questions …

Beauty of such institutes are getting awesome admissions every year, institutes offering various sops to grab the admission. I don’t know how the student’s are easily trap on their words, without viewing any originalities. Products of these institutes are being short in all basic etiquettes, in this cause, hospitality world suffering for the effective manpower.

Model facilities and good infrastructure catering colleges are now in pitiable conditions. All are well placed, then where the students are??? Alas..!!!

Fabricated stories about the catering course, one of the key ground for the downfall of choosing the course among the students. Hotels would be flexible on their policies on recruitment especially on the basic remuneration.

Hospitality industries urging, “Effective sources” then assist the catering colleges/universities on setup the training modules through forming the forum. It has to be compiling on their modern day needs.

It’s very hard to hear for me, teaching is the place for rest. We are the teaching community sole accountable for producing the hoteliers. We are ten fold more action then how we had been in the industry. Still rounding the old basic sauces, training modules & manuals etc, update the current trends and equipped them on it. Internal bias between the tutors resulting ward off the significant teachers from all the movements. We are the people only calling Catering as a professional course, but our community has not done anything for that.

Oh God…… Save the catering art from the hands of all the odds…..