Journal of Entrepreneurship Education (Print ISSN: 1098-8394; Online ISSN: 1528-2651)

Abstract

Changing Scenario in Hospitality Education: An Insight into Incorporating the Entrepreneurship Model in the Hospitality Education

Author(s): Narender Suhag

There is a substantial change in the higher education environment impacting the change in curricula, teaching methods, institutional practices and education process as a whole. The industry has an ever-growing demand for a flexible and skilled workforce to quickly adapt to the hotel industry and its day-to-day challenges. Now to up-bring the students with a mindset where they can quickly adapt and improvise needs training at the institute level itself. This paper shall be highlighting the new trends in hospitality education to create the future thinkers and entrepreneurs of the hospitality sector. Satisfaction with the job is still an issue in the hotel sector that needs to be addressed. Entrepreneurship or becoming your own boss deals with job satisfaction and turns hospitality graduates from job seekers to job providers. For primary data, a structured questionnaire was designed to understand the student’s mindset. This study is based on a study of the live entrepreneurship model at the deemed university in Delhi and NCR and its impact on the mindset of students. Results revealed that an entrepreneurship model increases self-confidence and knowledge making them future-ready to start their own set-up as well as preferred by employers.

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