ShikshaTopQuestions-Hospitality & Travel

Department of Hotel Management, Christ University was set up in 1991. The official website informs that: The Department of Hotel Management has 11 full-time faculties, with relevant industry and teaching experience, the department has also put forth a Diploma course in wine studies which is the first of the kind in the country. Candidates are eligible to apply for admission in hotel management programmes on offer at Christ University if they have cleared the Karnataka PUC examination or its equivalent (ISC / CBSE / Others) (10+2) exam in any discipline.
Srinivas College of Hotel Management, Mangalore is a decent college. It is good infrastructure and academics facilities. The fee is also lower as compared to Christ.
Below is the link comparing both the colleges on placements, infrastructure and fee.
Link: https://www.shiksha.com/resources/college-comparison-70184-183822.

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Bangalore Management Academy, located in Bangalore was established in year 2005. It offers post graduate courses in management with different domains. One of them is Tourism. It apparently had tie up with some universities abroad, which gave it an international character. There is a red herring also in that some sources say that this academy has closed down for want of students. But, of course this needs to be checked.
On the other hand, Trade Wings, Mumbai was incorporated in year 1949. It was a premier establishment to offer services in travel. It opened its Institute of Management in year 1989 for imparting training to its inductees as well as to other students. It pioneer is in training thousands of youngsters in the field of Travel and Tourism besides logistics management and hospitality sector. It has presence in more than 50 locations in India and trains thousands of students every year.To conclude, my vote goes to Trade Wings Academy of Management, simply because they have more than 20 different courses to choose from and, also it is presence in more than 50 locations across India.

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International Institute of Business Management is located in Pimpri-Chinchawad area near Pune and is in existence since yesterday 2000. It's majority courses are affiliated to Pune University, while a few are recognized by Sikkim Manipal University. It offer courses at graduation, post-graduation and certificate level, but unfortunately no course is offered in the area of Travel & Tourism.
On the other hand, TMI academy has its presence in three locations of Mumbai, Delhi and Pune. It offers different courses in the field of Travel and Tourism as per the charter of IATA. This attracts many students to it, since the institute offer courses that are recognized abroad also.
To conclude, I would say that TMI Academy should be the choice of all aspiring students making career in Travel and Tourism.

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Nalanda School of Management is located in Gomati Nagar of Lucknow. It was established as an open university that offer courses in management to working people who want to gain knowledge, but do not have time for regular studies. It's courses were designed by combining team of BHU IIT & IIM Lucknow. It offers many courses through distance education mode, but could not find any course related to Travel & Tourism on its website.
Thomas Cook is an old and trusted name in the field of Travel & Tourism. Initially, they started this centre of learning to train new inductees in their organization. However, perhaps seeing its potential as a business venture, Thomas Cook has developed their center of learning into a full-fledged institute, where everything about travel and Tourism is taught. In view of the foregoing, I would recommend Thomas Cook Centre of Learning for admission to anybody who wants to make career in Travel and Tourism.

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NSHM group has two campuses, one each at Kolkata & other one at Durgapur. It's school of Hotel Management is located in Durgapur and offers two courses. Both these courses are actually engineering courses approved by AICTE while degree is awarded by Maulana Azad Technical University of West Bengal. It has good reputation across West Bengal as institute of repute. On the other hand Cradle of Management Institute offers courses in hotel management and paramedical. These courses are recognised by National Council of Vocational Training. Institute is located almost on the edge of Delhi with Gurgaon. Institute claims to have achieved 100% placements consistently for many years.Based on above one can conclude that if one is desirous of having training in an engineering course about Hotel Management then NSHM campus @ Durgapur is the best option while for those who want skill based training can option for Cradle of Management Institute.

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Veer Narmad South Gujrat University was established around year 1965 as South Gujrat University. In 2002 it was renamed as Veer Narmad. University has a big campus of around 800 acres. It offers many courses at its campus in Surat along with different colleges affiliated to it in the six districts of South Gujrat along with union territory. But unfortunately, I could not find any reference to the course on Travel & Tourism. On the hand, Asia Pacific Institute of Management, located in Delhi started functioning around the year 1996. It's a great institute having bagged position of 11th overall in the whole of North India. This institute conducts many courses but from the website of this institute, there is no mention of any course on Travel & Tourism.To conclude I would like to confess that I'm not able to see any course related to Travel & Tourism in both of these institutes.

Hotel management and Tourism is one of the developing branch in India, and many college are there, which attract lot of students in this field. With lots of college options, students get confused after NCHMCT.
Here, PINHMCT and Heritage Institute of Hotel & Tourism, both offer this course, so it is difficult for a student to choose among both. Here are few aspects, which help student in choosing the correct one. Heritage College is. Affiliated to International Hotel & Restaurant Management, Federation of hotel and Restaurant Association and from UP Tourism. And, PINHMCT is affiliated to Annamalai University and Osmania University. As Heritage is affiliated to International association, so it open lot of opportunities for the student in India and also in abroad. HIHT give 90% job chances to student in various companies, such as Air India, TAJ Hotels, JAYPEE Hotels, Jet Airway and many more.
Overall, Heritage Institute of Hotel & Tourism is good option among these two.

National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology is a government body that organises NCHMCT JEE for admission in various college for hospitality and hotel management.
The exam is of 200 question in 3 hours with negative marking so proper practice is needed for scoring good marks in this exam.
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This is one of the old coachings (more than 30 years ago). Coaching ranked 4th in the education sector and 44th in top 100 trusted service brand in India In 2013. Coaching has a better faculty and they work on the overall development of student through various works.
Overall, a coaching just guides you to crack the exam but the main thing is you have to focus more on your self-study to score more in any exam.
All the best!

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This dilemma is always faced by students who are on the cusp of higher studies. Having done graduation, what next? This question preoccupies mind of almost all children and their parents. I would like to make it easier to understand and appreciate. Masters in simple term means postgraduate study in the same subject as that of your graduation. During graduation, many related subjects are taught. But here only rudimentary or peripheral knowledge can be obtained. But a student is now capable to understand different aspects of travel & tourism. During Masters, one of these subjects is to be chosen. Here, a detailed study is undertaken of the subject giving very deep and detailed all-round knowledge of the subject.On the other hand, MBA is managing. Hence as eligibility, any graduation is accepted. Here knowledge is imparted about the business aspect of it. Students are made capable to even start their own business besides making them fit to join any related company in a managerial position.To conclude, I would like to say that Masters will make you real professional in your chosen field while MBA will make you knowledgeable about all related fields.