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Employability of Tourism Graduates:An Empirical Study of Experience of Tourism Service Providers


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Tourism and travel management programmes have been taught at different levels in Universities and colleges in India as a vocational course. The main purpose of introducing a curriculum in tourism was to educate and train students about tourism, travel and hospitality industry. These courses aimed at providing suitable employment opportunities to the graduates at the end of the course period. The ratio of students entering in tourism profession, or placement of students in tourism and hospitality institutions are determined by the course curriculum, assistance of the institution in proving campus recruitment and preparedness of the students to join the industry. This research paper attempts to study and analyse the employability of tourism graduates through the experiences of employers with reference to Varanasi. The study would be useful to the researchers and academia to understand the main attributes of employability which are expected from the tourism trade.

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Employability, Tourism Education, Curriculum Development.
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Authors

P. J. Shyju
Tourism Management, Dept. of History of Art, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Chandra Shamsher Bahadur Singh
Tourism Management, Dept. of History of Art, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract


Tourism and travel management programmes have been taught at different levels in Universities and colleges in India as a vocational course. The main purpose of introducing a curriculum in tourism was to educate and train students about tourism, travel and hospitality industry. These courses aimed at providing suitable employment opportunities to the graduates at the end of the course period. The ratio of students entering in tourism profession, or placement of students in tourism and hospitality institutions are determined by the course curriculum, assistance of the institution in proving campus recruitment and preparedness of the students to join the industry. This research paper attempts to study and analyse the employability of tourism graduates through the experiences of employers with reference to Varanasi. The study would be useful to the researchers and academia to understand the main attributes of employability which are expected from the tourism trade.

Keywords


Employability, Tourism Education, Curriculum Development.

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