| |9 May 2019HIGHERReviewThe Tourism and Hospitality Skill Council is promoted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) with inclusive representation of the Government, Industry, Industry Associations and Training Institutes across Indiacountry. For the hospitality educa-tion, there are 29 Institutes of Hotel Management (IHMs), comprising 21 Central IHMs and 8 State IHMs, and 5 Food Craft Institutes (FCIs), which have come up with the support of the Ministry. The Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management under Ministry of Tourism, Gov-ernment of India, is one of the Asia's leading institutes in the country of-fering cutting edge professional ed-ucation, training and research in the field of tourism, travel sector. The IITTM has its headquarter at Gwalior with centres at Bhubaneswar, Noida. Goa, Nellore, Bodh Gaya, and Shil-long. Apart from this, the Tourism and Hospitality Skill Council is pro-moted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) with inclusive repre-sentation of the Government, Indus-try, Industry Associations and Train-ing Institutes across India. THSC is created by the Industry and for the Industry to undertake the skilling of mass human resource for the industry requirement. There are tremendous career opportunities in tourism sec-tor i.e. tour guiding, travel agencies, online travel agencies, tour opera-tion, tour marketing, business travel and MICE operation, in the aviation service, private airlines, ground han-dling staff, booking and reservation at terminals, ground staff operations at airports, In flight staff, airhostesses, flight stewards, in the event man-agement, convention planning and management, Special interest tour-ism, Eco, adventure, rural, film, golf, wildlife, religious, culture, tourism expert, transport operation and man-agement, vacation holiday consul-tant, cargo and logistics operations, luxury cruise liners, tourism de-partments in government sectors etc. to name some. In the hotel sector, these opportunities are linked with star and luxurious hotels, restaurants, resorts, Inns, guest houses and also with low cost budget hotels. There are many functional areas in hotel as per the specialization, operations, front office, housekeeping, food and beverages, food production, sales and marketing, public relation, and secu-rity. With these avenues in tourism and hospitality sector, it has become a lucrative option for the students and institutions as well.
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