Master of Science in Tourism, Travel and Hospitality Management

Course Objectives

• To train students in technical, managerial, and human relations skills necessary for successful operation of a modern hotel or catering establishment. In addition, students are versed in with the importance of the tourism industry in the modern world, and the necessity for hospitality planning and marketing.

Why Hotel Management

Hotel management is the academic study of the hospitality industry. Hospitality management studies provides a focus on management of hospitality operations including hotels, restaurants, cruise ships, amusement parks, destination marketing organizations, convention centers, country clubs, and related industries.

Hotels are amongst the most visible and important aspects of a country's infrastructure. Hotel industry is a closely linked one to the tourism industry. A number of factors like promotion of tourism and rapid industrial progress have given a boost to hoteliering. The liberalization of trade and opening up of economy has further lead to revolutionary growth in this sector.

With increasing globalization, Career opportunities in this field are not only limited within the country but there are several chains of hotels which operate internationally providing scope of a carrier abroad. With the growth of hotel industry propelled by foreign and domestic tourism and business travel, the demand for well trained quality personnel too has grown impressively.

The diversity of experience in hotel management is greater than in any other profession. Hotel industry involves combination of various skills like management, food and beverage service, housekeeping , front office operation, sales & marketing and accounting. Today, the rise in corporate activity (leading to greater number of business trips) as well as the wish to travel on holiday has made the hotel industry a very competitive one.

There is an acute shortage of arrived Manpower and the demand outstrips by at least 50% the supply of professional managers.

AIIHM promises to fulfill this need by providing trained professionals to join the multi-billion dollars global industry. With an intention of placing all Angelions in world class hotels, airlines, cruise liners, event management companies, and other hospitality companies. our courses have been carefully designed to equip students to deal with the challenges of the global hospitality industry.

Opportunities for hotel management graduates

Global growth and development of tourism have opened up innumerable openings. As a result hotel management graduates can look forward to various career opportunities such as:

• Management Trainees in Hotels and allied industry.

• Guest/ Customer Relation Executives in Hotels and other Service Sectors.

• Kitchen Management/ Housekeeping Management Trainees in Hotels.

• Flight Kitchens also offer opportunities for career building.

• Multi Skilled Executives in Fast Food Chains.

• Hospital and Institutional Catering Executives.

• Faculty in Hotel Management/ Food Craft Institutes( after earning industry work experience).

• Cabin Crew in National and International Airlines.

• Catering Officers or Chefs in Cruise Liners.

• Marketing/ Sales Executives in Hotels.

• Executives in Tourism Development Corporations and Resort properties.

• Self employed entrepreneurs.