Hotel / Hospitality Management

Entrepreneurship is an exciting step for any individual as well as a huge risk that one can take for a career. Hospitality is one sector that has ample entrepreneurship opportunities as this is a people management sector. Customer service allows you to change the approach of the services that you provide to your guests in a manner that you fill best. The many option of entrepreneurship depend on the experience that you would have had in the industry as that give you the basic understanding of the functionality of the department. Some good options could be:
Related to food services- Restaurants / Food chains / Food outlets / Franchises, all these will give you the option to excel in the field of food production introduce your own recipe or menu. Although this does require investment but if done well the benefits are great.
Travel management- Travel facilities such as ticket booking, hotel packages, leisure packages, etc. These are all the various facilities that can be provided in this business.
Catering facility- The knowledge of food production can initiate a business of catering. This can be at a small scale that involves even tiffin services or large scale that offers marriage and event catering.
These can prove to be very good initiatives for the people aspiring for entrepreneurship. One just needs to be careful in analyzing the investment and the returns that you plan to make so that you do not face any losses.

The IIHM eCHAT for the IIHM centers across the country is a national exam.
It is a little different than other exam as it is computerized base exam that has multiple choice questions.
There is no special eligibility criteria apart from being 12th pass with 50% pass marks and English as a main subject.
There is no negative marking hence one can relax and attempt as many questions as you wish and time allows you.
The number of question are 60 to be completed in 45 mins and as it is computerized one must practice a lot of question papers to be able to attempt maximum questions.
Focus on the easy scoring sections such as English (practice grammar, true false and fill the blanks type of questions, general knowledge (the current affairs and newspapers will be a great source to score well in these sections), other sections will require specific concept application based preparation.

Sous chefs are second-in-command in kitchens, reporting to the head chef, overseeing the preparation and cooking of food at restaurants, diners, and other operations where somebody can get a bite to eat. Sous chefs make sure that a kitchen is a well-oiled machine, preparing food, managing the kitchen staff to make sure food prepared quickly and as delicious as possible, and enforcing food safety standards.
Experience is the key. Most sous chefs start in other positions in the kitchen, from the dishwasher, cook, etc., and learn the skills they need on the job to move up. However, some will gain experience through training at a Hotel Management/ Catering school, with 2 and 4-year degrees are available. Sous chefs looking for more advanced training can get involved in apprenticeships through culinary schools and other organizations. These typically last two years.
Tasks performed by Sous Chef are:
1. Assist management of food preparation, planning, and production.
2. Substitute for the executive chef or line cooks when off-duty or during staff shortages.
3. Supervise kitchen staff.
Their pay is generally in the range of 1.5-2.5 LPA. They are generally full-time workers and act as chefs in master chef's absence.

If you are looking for a course in hotel management then IAM is a better option.
The training kitchens and bakery, the training restaurants, training front office and guest rooms are all modern and fully equipped to impart practical training of a high standard.
It has well-stocked libraries with international titles from all over the world.
The college has its own computer centres for the exclusive use of its students.
The students are given real-life exposure on the operation and management of commercial hotels while undergoing the course.
Students of the institute can avail the educational loan from a number of banks.
Companies like Oberoi Group of Hotels, Taj Group of Hotels, Hyatt Group of Hotels, Park Group of Hotels, Intercontinental Group of Hotels, Le Meridien Hotels and Grand Hyatt visits the campus.
Panache Academy, Ahmedabad is one of the leading Academy in the state of Gujarat for Aviation / Tourism / Hospitality. The Academy is designed to provide consistent, high-quality and appropriate academic advising, monitoring, mentoring, nurturing and coaching to ensure academic and personal success.
IAM is a better option among the two for hotel management course.