Hospitality Education In Allahabad –A Student’s Perspective
Keywords:
Hospitality Education, Science, Commerce, Arts, AllahabadAbstract
Background: This paper emphasizes on significance of hospitality education keeping in view the student’s perspective in the city of Allahabad. Hospitality education opens a wide range of career prospects related to hotel and tourism management, restaurant management, culinary art, retail and financial management. Objective: To assess the student’s perspective regarding Hospital
ity education. Method: The data was collected by the means of questionnaire from 100 students of class 12th of various streams studying at different coaching centres of Allahabad. Result: The subjects had strong awareness regarding hospitality industry, out of which 84% believed it as an excellent career option. All the Commerce students believed that Hospitality management is a viable career option for them whereas only 75% of the Science and Arts students believed so. All the Science and Commerce students believed that there is no favourable atmosphere and career pros pects for Hospitality Management graduates in the city of Allahabad whereas only 67% of the Art students share the same opinion. Conclusion: There is a need for state and central governments to focus on the tourism development of the city which has a lot of potential.
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