Career Options In Hotel Management
A Hotel management involves dealing with people throughout the day with guests in your own and other departments. The work culture involves good teamwork and leadership. Hotel management is primarily concerned with food and living space, the boarding and lodging needs of the guests, and more importantly their comfort, at all times.
There are main operational areas involves in hotel management such as front office management, housekeeping, food production, food and beverage services, accounting, marketing, financial management, engineering, maintenance. For all these you need some skills and knowledge. Among the emerging professional courses that have attracted the youngsters in the recent years, hotel management is very prominent. There are lots of institutes all over the world, which provide this training.
Courses in Hotel Management are:
BHM: Bachelor of Hotel Management
DHM: Diploma in Hotel Management
BHMCT:Bachelor of Hotel Management and Catering Technology
DHMCT:Diploma in Hotel Management and Catering Technology
PGDHM: Post Graduate Diploma in Hotel Management
A graduate can join in the variety of roles to begin with his career. Some of them are as follows.
- Management Trainee in Hotel and allied industry
- Guest/ Customer Relation Executive in Hotel and other Service Sectors
- Kitchen Management/ House keeping Management Trainee in Hotels
- Flight Kitchens also offer opportunities for career building
- Executive multi skilled in Fast Food Chains
- Hospital and Institutional Catering Executives
- Faculty in Hotel Management/ Food Craft Institutes
- Cabin Crew in National and International Airlines
- Catering Officer or Chef in Cruise lines
- Marketing/ Sales Executive in Hotel
Thus, the salaries depend on the hierarchy and also on the post of the employer. |