Unlocking the Employment Opportunities in Tourism Industry at Hadoti Region With the Help of Tourism Education: Challenges and Future Perspectives

Introduction

Tourism industry is the most demanding and growing industry from past few decades. According to Goeldner and Richie (2003), tourism is the world’s biggest industry. Sola (2002) defined that tourism activities are differing to person to person, with its excellence depending on the education and inspiration of its workers (Sola, 2002). Tourism is filled by a huge number of small and medium sized businesses in multidisciplinary field. (Thomas, 2000; Ayres, 2006).Although tourism industry is not paying the returns to everyone in the same way but there is no doubt it is beneficially for all in one or another way. The most prominent benefit of this industry is creation of employment and business opportunities. In present era the main source of income and employment is Travel outflow for many countries (Edgell, 2006).With these types of changes the demand of tourism education and courses is raised. On the other hand an extensive inclination has been to pay notice not just to the content of tourism degrees, but to the virtues of graduates in requisites of skills and aptitudes, which are referred to as nonspecific skills and graduate characteristics (Pearce, 2005).

From personal outlook for provisions of employment and from organisational outlook in terms of the labour contribution tourism education is very much connected to the tourism industry (Ladkin, 2005). According to Riley et al., (2002) it is difficult to examine tourism employment because of the miscellaneous and split character of tourism industry. Second, Ladkin (2005) defined investigation of tourism employment markets, however, is challenging, due to the variety of the tourism industry. Regardless of the multiplicity of tourism employment, a number of kinds of employments in the industry can be recognized, including seasonal, part-time, female, emigrant/migrant, and active in the casual economy (Andriotis & Vaughan, 2004). An attempt has been made by (Leiper, 2004; Richardson & Fluker, 2004; Riley et al., 2002) to give a broad list of tourism division which includes- travel agencies, transport and tour operators, conferences and events, environment supervision, medical and spa tourism, government offices NGOs and educational institutions. Different kinds of matters unfolding to interest in tourism and hospitality employment, counting employment motivation, achievement insight and employment attainment strategies has been investigated by Ross (1992, 1993, 1997).

Speedy growth of the tourism industry creates numbers of employment and business opportunities. This industry is not only plays a vital role in economical growth but also in social –cultural development, protection of heritage and promotion of destinations. The main objective of this chapter is to scrutinize the relation between tourism education and employment. According to Riley et al.,(2002)tourism education needs to meet out the three crucial factors – to focus upon the personal development, to enhance the knowledge level, and to meet up relevancy to industry.