Empirical Examination of Attributes in Hospitality Education Policy

Abstract

Hospitality and tourism industry is expanding in a very rapid pace in India creating lots of opportunities for in employment. With the ever-increasing need of trained and efficient manpower in these industries, there is an immediate need of a modified, reformed and upto date industry-specific academic curriculum so that it can meet the current and future demand. The industry is already plagued with problems like skill gap, high attrition, and hectic working hours. As the union government launched New Education Policy (NEP) in 2020 to address the major challenges and shortcomings in existing education policy, it is time for the hospitality and tourism industries to identify the gaps and major problem areas with reference to both academic points of view and industry perspectives and help modify the existing curriculum as per the need and derive maximum from the new education policy. This research paper is an attempt to find out the areas having major gaps in teaching and learning in respect of hospitality and tourism industries according to the New Education Policy 2020 compared to the earlier one, and to focus on the salient features of NEP 2020.