Role of Industrial Training in Enhancing the Employability of Hospitality Students : A Review Paper

Abstract

Industrial Training acts as a bridge between academia and industry . Industrial Training has a special relevance in the curriculum of hospitality students . This paper aims to understand the importance of industrial training ,how it enhances the employability of undergraduate students of hospitality .First of all industrial training gives them a glimpse of industry and actually prepares the students for the industry.Research papers have been extracted from the last 15 years i.e from 2010-2024 on the keywords industrial training ,employability,job preparedness ,hospitality .This paper highlights the significance of internships and how much value they bring it to emplyability .Fifty papers have been reviewed which have been indexed in scopus .On the basis of finding,which is of interest to various stakeholders helps to understand the literature and explore vital areas for future research that would further motivate the researchers to work on theories related to internship related practices,highlighting areas both on interest and concern .Also it has been found that intership has been able to captivate the attention in the recent studies .Future challenge is to safeguard the pedagogical integrity of this experiential learning,otherwise the untrained professionals will be generated .In Industrial Training ,the interns should have the sense of responsibility as if he is the real employee of the hotel and should be treated with dignity and grace so that he should carry the same responsility level and work in organization with dignity and grace