Hospitality & Travel

Graduates of the PGD in Culinary Arts course can look for jobs in the hotel management and hospitality industry. There is a wide scope for career opportunities in this field and lot of job opportunities are available for candidates having a formal education in the field. There are a number of career opportunities in hotel management. Culinary arts is also one of the important aspects of hotel management. The areas where graduates with this specialisation can find jobs are :
1. Hotels/ Restaurants / Resorts / Clubs / Bars
2. Food & Beverage Industry
3. Catering Firms Cafes / Bistros / Bakeries
4. Tourism Industry Airlines & Cruise Liners
5. Educational Institutions
6. Government Sector like India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), Armed Forces etc.
7. Food Processing Companies
8. Bartending
Culinary Arts Scope in India: Job Roles
1. Chef entrepreneurs: It opens up an avenue for candidates to start their restaurants, food business etc.
2. Executive chef: Manages the kitchen staff, formulates work schedules, crafts menus, and calculates food costs.
3. Sous chef: Supports the Executive Chef in managing the kitchen.
4. Pastry chef: responsible for baking breads, pastries, and desserts.
5. Personal chef: working together with a single or multiple clients to provide meals that best fit the clients nutritional needs, lifestyle and palate
6. Restaurant manager: Manages restaurant for owner, schedules employees, works with the Chef to promote quality food service that is professional and timely.
7. Catering director: Promotes and organizes banquets and catered events.
8. Food writer: producing cookbooks, recipes, blogs and other content for either their own venture of major clients and companies
9. Food styling: presenting food in aesthetically appealing ways, food stylists can often find opportunities freelancing for major publications and media houses.

Yes, you can go to the hotel management field after the completion of an MBA in Hospitality Management from a reputed university. The following are the job profiles after the completion of this programme:
Food & Beverage Manager
Finance Manager
Restaurant Manager
Travel Agent
Casino Manager
Top recruiters for the MBA in HM:
ITC Hotels
Taj Group of Hotels
Hyatt Hotels
Oberoi Group
Carlson
KTDC Hotels
Sheraton Corporations
Mansingh Group of Hotels
My friend did MBA in HM after completion of the BBA programme from LPU and got placed in a reputed hotel and manager. Being an alumnus of LPU, I highly recommend LPU for an MBA degree keeping in mind the following points:
The Mittal School of Business at LPU is accredited by Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, USA ensuring quality education and industry-experienced faculty members, studying in LPU will get a degree accredited from a body of USA. The highest package offered for the management programme is 21 LPA. Scholarships: LPU provides very good scholarships on the basis of Percentage in Qualifying Exam/ Qualification previous to Eligibility Qualification, LPU NEST CAT/ MAT/ XAT/ CMAT or NMAT Financial Aid, Need-Based, Financial Aid for Serving/ Retired Defence/ CAPF/ Para- Military Personnel and their dependents, Financial Aid to Persons with Certain Disabilities
Infrastructure: All the facilities are available on the campus itself, a student does not need to go outside for anything. On the campus, Central Library, Hospital facility is available 24*7 for staff and students, Shopping mall, Indoor Sports Stadium with 3 Olympic size Swimming Pools, Public/Private Sector Banks, ATM, etc. Ranking:
1. Ranked 1st for Focus on Affordable and clean energy in India
2. Ranked 2nd for Decent Work and Economic Growth in India
3. Ranked 37th business management schools in India
4. LPU ranks amongst the Top 200 universities of the world as per the prestigious Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2021
5. It is among the top 20 Indian organizations that have filed the highest number of patents in India in the last 10 years including IIT Madras. I hope this helps
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