To be in Hotel industry, you should have an outgoing and a pleasing personality. You need to be organised, tactful and good at communication skills. You should have an attitude to serve people.

As for the educational and professional qualifications, a diploma or degree in Hotel Management will get you a job as an Executive/Management Trainee in a hotel. This can be done after HSC. A diploma after SSC (in Housekeeping/Food craft/Front office) will place you as an Operational Trainee in a hotel. Alternatively, you can also join a hotel as an apprentice directly after your HSC in any stream. Some hotels even take graduates in any subject as Executive Trainees. There is scope for MBAs in the marketing, finance and human resources departments.

Job Opportunities: Apart from working in hotels, restaurants, cafs, resorts, guesthouses and casinos, you could also be employed in the tourism industry, conference centres and large companies in various industries.

Check out these options as well: Industrial canteens and corporate guesthouses, In airlines as cabin crew and customer service executives at airports, Flight kitchens, Merchant Navy and luxury ships in their catering departments, Railways, etc.

Some institutes you could look at:

• Institute of Hotel Management Catering Tech. & Applied Nutrition

V.S.S. Nagar, Bhubaneswar - 751 004

• National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology, Library Avenue, Pusa Complex, New Delhi-12.

• Institute of Hotel Management Catering Tech. & Applied Nutrition

Veer Sawarkar Marg, Dadar, Mumbai - 400 028

• Institute of Hotel Management Catering Tech. & Applied Nutrition

CIT Campus, Tharamani PO, Chennai - 600 113

• Institute of Hotel Management Catering Tech. & Applied Nutrition

P-16, Taratola Road, Calcutta - 700 088

We hope that the information has been useful to you. If you need more information, please feel free to write to us again anytime.

Best wishes for a bright future,