Hospitality management student's career intentions to become entrepreneurs in hospitality sector after completion of their course

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

Hardaman Singh Bhinder

Some of the final year hotel management students would like to set up their own business ventures in spite of joining

the industry at the entry level positions. Reason could be due to challenging and demanding nature of employment

conditions in the hospitality sector and tends to switch over to other allied sectors. Present study explores the future

intentions of final year hotel management students after completion of their course program towards entrepreneurship. Research aims to

find out major reasons, which influenced them to become entrepreneur and what are the major reasons among students for not starting their

own venture after the completion of their course. Survey instrument used was structured questionnaire and interviews conducted with sample

population. Research findings are based on the statistical data and revealed less percentage of students are keen towards entrepreneurship. The

primary data have been collected through questionnaire .The sample size for the study was 84.The data is analysed using percentage analysis

and bar charts were used to present demographic profiles of the respondents. Finding highlighted that passion to be your own your boss are

influencing reason for students to start their own ventures. Hospitality educationally institutes must develop entrepreneurial skills among

students through inviting successful entrepreneurs by way of entrepreneurship development cell.