Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences: Home

Abstract:
The objectives of this study are to find out the career expectations of tourism and hospitality management graduates, identify the current value of their degree for their aim of a career in tourism and hospitality management, as well as for the information of managerial employees. In order to collect information on various aspects of the industry, an extensive review of the literature on education, skill, experience required for Tourism and Hospitality graduates to succeed in the tourism hospitality industry was conducted and a questionnaire survey undertaken with hotel employees in the tourism capital of Bangladesh, Cox?s Bazar. There is a considerable gap in terms of education, and its impact upon the employee and the industry. The employer and industry in the hospitality sector are lacking a great deal of higher order conceptual knowledge and skills involving maintaining the standard required to keep international-level competency. The study concluded with the following recommendations that both educational institutions and industry need to engage in more open channels of communication in order to gain the positive benefits of recruiting well-educated ambitious university graduates. Through this process educational institutions can come up with a curriculum based on industrial demand and the Tourism and Hospitality Industry can take full positive advantage of the modernization and development of the industry.

Keywords: career, tourism education, hospitality education, graduates, management, industry, institutions, curriculum, modernization

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