a hotel management or hospitality management is a course which trains a student with the various aspects of managing a hotel. This includes basic principles of management which include but is not limited to food and beverages, purchasing, upkeep and sanitary standards of hotel facilities, financial accounting, marketing and sales management, etc.
With the advent of the service sector, Hotel Mangement or Hospitality Management is a course which is highly sought after.

Students who complete their courses in Hotel Management are absorbed in various positions. It could be a front desk executive or a floor manager or a sales manager and so on and so forth. People who graduate with a special certificate in culinary arts are absorbed as apprentices in famous kitchens or start as a sous chef, working their way up.

The basic eligibility criteria for Hotel Management is a Senior Secondary or Class 12 th or equivalent certification. Students with any subject in class 12 th are eligible to apply for Hotel Management Courses. The best institutes in India often have an entrance examination as well. Candidates are required to clear the examinations to be able to get admission in the particular college. The most famous examination is the NCHMCT JEE or National Council of Hotel Management and Catering Technology Joint Entrance Examination. The other famous national level examination is International Institute of Hotel Management Electronic Common Hotel Admission Test 2018 or IIHM eCHAT.

A few top colleges in India are:

• Institute of Hotel Management, IHM Delhi
• Institute of Hotel Management, IHM Mumbai
• Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, WGSHA Manipal
• Institute of Hotel Management, IHM Chennai
• Institute of Hotel Management Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Hyderabad
• Department of Hotel Management, Christ (deemed to be university), Bengaluru
• Army Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Bengaluru
• Institute of Hotel Management, Gwalior
• Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, New Delhi
• NSHM School of Hotel Management, Durgapur
• Institute of Hotel Management (IHM), Bangalore
• Institute of Hotel Management, Catering & Nutrition, Lucknow
• SRM Institute of Hotel Management, Chennai
• Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, Kurukshetra University
• Institute of Hotel Management (IHM), Ahmedabad

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