Tourism & Travel

Government organisations in travel and tourism sector:
In India, every state government has their own tourism development corporations working under the state government like:
Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation
Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation
Meghalaya Tourism Development Corporation
Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation
Kerala Tourism Development Corporation
Karnataka Tourism Development Corporation
APSRTC
Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation
Delhi Tourism & Transportation Development Corporation
Chandigarh Industrial & Tourism Development Corporation
Tourism Development Jammu & Kashmir
Apart from these tourism development corporations, other government organisations operating in this industry include:
Directorate of Information, Publicity & Tourism
Ministry of Tourism of Government of India
Some of the job positions available in the sector of travel and tourism are:
Lobby Manager
Front Office executive
Cabin crew
Tour operations manager
Ticketing assistants
Junior travel executive
Trainee travel consultant
Operations executive
Reservation executive
Tour management executive
Immigration consultant

Hotel management and hospitality management refer to the same discipline of study. These are careers with good scope and students on passing out can join hotels and restaurants, catering services of Railways, Airlines, and Shipping companies. Clubs and hotel and tourism association need the services of professional hotel managers. Besides industrial canteen and another institutional canteen of colleges, schools, factories and company guest houses also need hotel management graduates. Some pursue postgraduate studies in hotel management and opt for teaching jobs. There are various types of hotel management courses at different levels like undergraduate level, post graduate level, diploma, certificate courses. These are some of the institutes offering hotel management courses:1) Indian Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad, (www.iihm.ac.in),2) National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology, New Delhi, 3) Welcome group Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal University (www.manipal.edu),4) Institute of Advanced Management (IAM), Kolkata, 5) J.P Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology, Meerut (www.jpihm.com/),6) Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Bangalore (www.ihmbangalore.com),7) Amity School of Hospitality (www.amity.edu/ash/Default.asp),8) Mumbai college of hotel management & catering technology (www.mumbaicollege.com),9) National Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management (NITHM), Hyderabad (www.nithm.ac.in),10) Bangalore Management Academy (BMA) (www.bmaindia.com),11) The Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai, (www.ihmctan.edu).You may visit respective institute website for details like eligibility criteria, selection procedure, duration of the course, etc. All the best!