PERCEPTION OF FACULTY AND INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVE TOWARDSHOTEL MANAGEMENT SUBJECTS: THE CASE STUDY OF NCHMCTSYLLABUSININDIA
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Hospitality and tourism education is always viewed as a factor in the tourism development of anyregion (Bagri and Babu, 2009). Hospitality and tourism education is of vital importance in developing theright kind of manpower which in turn can make better planning and bring the required professionalism to theindustry (Bhardwaj, 2002).The curriculum is the foundation of every course; it includes all of the learningopportunities offered by educational institutions as well as the overall experience that will help the student todevelop the skills necessary to accomplish the job (Galle L.E & Pole, 1978).In 1984, the “Ministry ofTourism”(MOT)tookovereducationpertainingtoHotelManagementinIndiaandestablishedanautonomous body, “the National Council for Hotel Management and catering technology” (NCHMCT),which is anodal and affiliating organization regarding the setting of standards pertaining to the field ofHotel Management. The main objective was to have a common syllabus and norms and many of the FoodCrafts Institutes were upgraded to the status of Hotel Management Institutes, according to (Almedia&Chaudhary,2015).
In this research work,efforts were made to find out the perception of faculty and industry experts towards thesyllabus of NCHMCT, which play a role of an apex body for more than 80 institutes affiliated with it.Therefore a sample of 350 respondents was collected and analyzed statistically with the help of descriptiveanalysis (mean, median, mode, standard deviation, etc.) and inferential statistics such as independent samplet-Test and Chi-Squaretest.
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