Emerging Trends in Training and Development in West Bengal

Tourism has become a commercial business, which has obvious benefits to the said economy, the environment and society. Often, the positive economic impacts persuade governments, companies and individuals to get involved with the development of tourism. Tourism creates jobs, both

The hospitality industry is a very lucrative and rewarding career choice. Choosing a career in this field is not for the faint at heart. A career in this industry requires an individual that is ambitious, self-motivated, and has a charismatic personality. However, the hard work comes with many personal and financial rewards. Hospitality covers all careers that can come underneath the lodging, restaurants, event planning, theme parks, transportation, and tourism. However, this paper will go in depth explaining the role of general management, growth of employment, and human

Tourism is one of the most international industries. Globalisation is the gradual forging of links between groups and societies until they finally reach around the globe in several directions (Smith, D,2006). Globalization is one of the serious challenges facing managers today. It is critical to develop services that are able to satisfy a highly diverse customer base (Ueltschy et al., 2007) Now to keep up with the rising levels of globalization in the hotel industry, there’s a need to understand not only the positive, but also the negative impacts of globalisation. I’ll also talk about the growth and rise of one of the most respected brands in the hospitality industry - the Hilton Hotels. Throughout the evolution of this famous organization, the Hilton has

We all know that the tourism plays an important role in the overall national economy and each of its

While many problems are associated with International tourism, it can still offer some advantages. For one thing, International tourism can open job opportunities for the native citizens. To demonstrate, when tourists visit an area, the vast majority of them don’t have a clue on

Employment opportunities have increased thanks to the tourism sectors. Creating jobs for women and young people, this has contributed to the increase in foreign income, and improves the standards of living for the individual employed in this sector.

Tourism plays a vital role in economic development in most countries around the world. The industry has not only direct economic impact, but also significant indirect and influential impacts. There is agreement among experts that the travel and tourism sector is the fastest growing of global economy. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism receipts surpass US$ 1 trillion in 2011, growing about 3.8%up from 2010 (WTO, 2012).

Hospitality jobs, which include hotel jobs, resort jobs, restaurant jobs and other food service jobs, require constant positive interaction between individual employees and guests in order to establish a connection that will keep the business thriving (Wang, Y. (2010). New trends in management have swept through the international hospitality industry in recent years and some have left without a trace while others have shown more staying power. Whether it be total quality management, employee empowerment, or re-engineering, each new management shares a common element. The main yet rapidly changing role of the manager in implementing change, facilitating employee performance, building effective teams, and assuring delivery of quality goods and services to the public(Wang, Y. (2010). The hospitality industry 's employment base is the largest of any industry in the private sector in the USA. It surpasses the agriculture sector and the auto, electronics, steel, and textile industries combined in number of people employed. The hospitality industry worldwide employs over 255 million people. Within the USA, the hospitality industry employs over 13.9 million people, or 11 per cent of the working population. Hotel employee turnover is a well-documented problem in the hospitality industry with reported turnover rates ranging from 31 percent to 43 percent to 58.8 percent in the U.S. (Ziegler, H. (2015). Turnover in the hospitality industry is reported to be "nearly twice the average

Tourism is an important job creator, employing millions of people around the world. The vast majority of tourism jobs are in small or medium-sized, family-owned enterprises, especially in developing countries. Through tourism, locals within host destination are given the opportunity to remain in their local region and have incentives to better improve their

5. Human resources capacity building; the critical gap between tourism work force supply and demand and the limited private sector investment in tourism training are crippling the sector’s

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry

When looking at the relationship between tourism and work as depicted in the documentary Life and Dept (2001) that was watched in class, one must first understand that tourism is a recent phenomenon. It is something that has just recently been made available and affordable to the everyday citizen. With this rather new development, tourism has become one of the largest industries in the world in term of revenue. This industry is so large that it employs "one in six workers in the Caribbean" (Gentry 2007).

The contemporary issues associated with the hotel management system have to be evaluated, as it impacts the performance of the management. There are different types of issues faced by the authorities like the shortage of the labour force, high operational expenses, business expansion plans, and others. Through planning and strategic implementation of different factors at the workplace it is possible to overpower the challenges associated with the operational activities. This report analyse the explicit and implicit issues faced by the hotel management for expanding the business to different areas. It is essential to develop and implement effective strategies through which the business requirements can be handled in an effective manner. This would help the management to overpower the complex situation and introduce the best policies through which the performance of the hotel can be improved (Erdem et al., 2006).

The tourism industry has been growing rapindly over the years so much that it is regarded by many as a possible generator of significant economic activities in many parts of the world’s economy and the youth are not likely to benefit from realization of the potential unless they are directly or indirectly involved in its activities in the form of proprietors or shareholders.

Manpower Training and Development is a very important aspect of human resources management which must be embarked upon either proactively or reactively to meet any change brought about in the course of time. The rationale behind it is to web the job and the job-holder together to achieve the organizational objectives.