Hospitality Industry
Hospitality Industry
Hospitality Industry
lodging, restaurants, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry. The hospitality industry is a several billion dollar industry that mostly depends on the availability of leisure time and disposable income. A hospitality unit such as a restaurant, hotel, or even an amusement park consists of multiple groups such as facility maintenance, direct operations (servers, housekeepers, porters, kitchen workers, bartenders, etc.), management, marketing, and human resources. The hospitality industry covers a wide range of organizations offering food service and accommodation. The industry is divided into sectors according to the skill-sets required for the work involved. Sectors include accommodation, food and beverage, meeting and events, gaming, entertainment and recreation, tourism services, and visitor information.
their turf. Therefore, with opportunities galore the future 'Scenario of Indian Hotel Industry' looks rosy
India has the potential to become the number one tourist destination in the world with the demand growing at 10.1 per cent per annum, the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has predicted. The WTO (World Travel Organisation) predicts that India will receive 25 million tourists by year 2015. Major attractions in India are the world's highest mountains, miles of coastline with excellent beaches, tropical forests and wildlife, desert safari, lagoon backwaters, ancient monuments, forts and palaces, adventure tourism and, of course, the Taj Mahal. India currently has over 200,000 hotel rooms spread across hotel categories and guest-houses and is still facing a shortfall of over 100,000 rooms (source: FHRAI). The country is witnessing an unprecedented growth in hotel constructions and will be adding almost 114,000 hotel guest rooms to its inventory over the next five years. (source: HVS) The earlier setbacks in global tourism have strengthened the Department of Tourism's resolve to promote India's tourism through aggressive marketing strategies through its campaign 'Incredible India'. The 'marketing mantra' for the Department of Tourism is to position India as a global brand to take advantage of the burgeoning global travel and trade and the vast untapped potential of India as a destination.
The Indian Hospitality Industry An Overview
The current scenario Existing hotel rooms in India: 202,963, source FHRAI Revenue of the Indian hotel industry FY 2009-10: US$ 137.36 (INR 47,889.03 crore) 30% of this revenue i.e. US$ 41.2 million (INR 14,366.7 crore) went back into the market in FY 2008-09 as operating expenses
Hotel category 5 star deluxe/5 star 4 Star 3 Star 2 Star 1 Star Heritage Uncategorised Total Restaurants
No. of Hotels 165 134 505 495 260 70 7,078 8,707 12,750
No. of Rooms 43, 965 20, 770 30,100 22,950 10,900 4,200 1,32,885
Despite the global recession, inflation, terrorism and other factors, the overall outlook for the Indian hospitality market is optimistic and will remain so says HVS India remains the second fastest growing economy in the world and the economic growth of the country is at 7.1% of the GDP as declared by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister, India. The Tourism Ministry, Government of India, has set a target of 10 million tourists to India by 2010 The WTO (World Travel Organisation) predicts that India will receive 25 million tourists by year 2015
Rooms being built across hotel categories: 114,000, source HVS Investment in rupees: INR 40,463.10