Hotel Management: Eligibility & Career Options

By Rohit Jain

Hotel Management: Eligibility & Career Options

Hotel industry is one of the booming industries not only in India but across the globe. Hotel Management has earned eminence lately as a stream of management.

Hotel management sits at a cornerstone of the hospitality industry. A suite of services is offered to a guest from the moment they walk into a hotel right until they depart, and the task of a hotel manager is to ensure that everything in-between is smooth, pleasant and efficient.

He/she is friendly, dynamic, tireless and a problem-solver, facilitating a symbiotic collaboration between different wings of the hospitality industry. A degree in hotel management will equip you with all these skills, and more. It is imperative for hotel management students to understand the cultures, religions and places.

Hotel Management implicates the efficient management of the tourist and technology, simultaneously. Managing a hotel is not an easy task, as it comes with a wide range of responsibilities. One should be able to habituate the new challenges, support different departments and to ensure that the hotel maintains the standard of supremacy. The hotel structure delivers order to every aspect of hotel operation from the front desk operation to the human resource department. To run a hotel, it is essential to create an organizational structure.

An organisational structure of any hotel includes food and beverages, Human resources and Marketing and accounting. Human resource department is asked to handle employee recruitment, training and benefits and accounting overseas the hotel ledger. A hotel defines each job carefully after completing its organizational structured.

There are following departments of the hotel industry for the prospective students.

• Food and Beverages
• Housekeeping
• Marketing
• Accounting
• Public relations
• Computer Applications
• Front Office
• Recreation
• Engineering
• Fire Fighting
• Financial management

In the coming future, hotel industry will become the most crucial part of the hospitality industry. The demand for the hotel professionals has rapidly increased. And it is anticipated to grow more in India as well as abroad in the coming time.

More and more students are getting attracted towards the hotel profession and have become the most glamorous profession.

Eligibility Criteria           

• Minimum qualification required for Hotel Management course is 10+2. Students can even opt for certificate diploma or even degree course.
• Certificate courses can be of six months to one year duration, while a degree course of three year duration.
• Selection for Government colleges and Institutes is done through an entrance test which is held every year in the month of April.- NCHMCT JEE while private colleges conduct their own hotel management entrance exams.
• For selecting candidates, a group discussion and an aptitude test is held for final selection of the students for hotel management course.

Candidates must possess excellent communication skills and intrapersonal skills to handle the students with patience and delightfully to leave an impact on their clients.

Career opportunities are on wider range for hotel graduates with the inceasing competition in the hotel industry. Hotel industry has so many departments such as operations, front office, food and beverages and accounting. Students can successfully pursue a career and can grow in it.

Employment opportunities:-

Apart from hotels, students can even get jobs in various other sectors.

• Club Management
• Cruise Ship hotel management
• Hospital administration and catering
• Guest Houses and resorts.
• Catering department of shipping companies, armed forces etc.
• Hospitality services in the Indian Navy.
• Forest Lodges.

About the Author:

Rohit Jain

Rohit Jain has completed his Master in Business Administration, Bachelors of Business Economics from Delhi University. He has over 10 years of experience in the Education Industry with respect to Strategy Planning, Marketing, Brand Management, Celebrity Endorsement and Media planning. Over time he has acquired skillful knowledge and experience in Digital Marketing.

Currently, heading the marketing and sales operations in UEI Global- Leading Hotel Management Institute of India with largest chain of Hotel Management Institutes across the country.

He has played a vital role as Advisor- Media Planning and Strategic Alliances for various Universities and Management Colleges. Renowned as a marketing professional, he has addressed more than 50,000 students for their career & life skills needs at various workshops and seminars.