Hospitality Industry: Career Opportunities and Progression

Assessment
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Hospitality Industry.....................................................................................................................3
Career Opportunities....................................................................................................................5
Explanation of how an individual could progress within the sector............................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Hospitality industry, has been playing a crucial role for the different economies in all over
the world. This report specifically going to show the working of hospitality industry, what
opportunities and individual can get when it comes to career development and so on. Along with
this, assessment will also put light on different experiences, training and qualifications that are
required by buy an individual who is looking forward to get into the hospitality industry. In the
early 21st century, there were many global corporate hotel chains merge with each other like
intercontinental hotel, Holiday inn, Crowne plaza, Marriott, Accor hotels, hotel, and so on. In the
year of 2015 the first world hotel which was expanded within in Malaysia that consists with 7351
rooms and considered to be the largest hotel in all over the globe (Adeola and Ezenwafor, 2016).
Main Body
Hospitality Industry
This industry has affected the economy, living standards of individuals, entertainment
aspects and so on within both negative and positive sense. On the other hand, it has been
analysed that hospitality industry has been in nearly old as humanity where individuals lived in
caves and now it has turned into inns, staging post, resorts, motels, hotels and so on. Particularly,
there are around 187000 hotels that are delivering number of services to customers in relation to
lodging accommodation and so on. Including this, hospitality industry can be defined as a
number of categories which delivers services like drink service, food, lodging, even planning,
transportation, theme parks, cruise line, airline, travelling and so on as these are directly
connected with tourism and event planning industry as well (Mohsin, Ramli and Alkhulayfi,
2016).
Basically, hospitality industry delivers a range of services to the customers depending on
their demand and requirements like accommodation, food, lodging and so on. Over the years,
there are many business organisations that are dealing within this sector and giving good rivalry
to each other where Holiday inn, InterContinental, Accor hotels, Marriott and so on. Description
of all of these business organisations along with the location in which they are operating are
mentioned underneath:
Marriott International: this is one of the hospitality company which is famous among
individuals who are looking forward to visit new places and getting exotic experience of lodging
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