HOTELS AND RESTAURANT INDUSTRY

The Hotels & Restaurant sector covers a wide-range of organizations providing hospitality services in the form of accommodation, foods, meals and drinks.

A large numbers of people and professionals working in the hotel and restaurant sector are employed part-time and full time, which is an increasing style. It is estimated that by the year 2004-2005 about 45 to 50% of the people employed in the hospitality industry could be working full-time and rest of all working in part-time.

A hotel consists of major departments such as Operations, Front office, House keeping, Food and Beverages, Accounting, Engineering/ Maintenance, Sales and Security. Each department has a number of positions which one can opt for.

As an increasing number of MNCs are entering into the market, career opportunities in hotel sector are enormous not only within the country but also in the international hotel chains.