• Pankaj Misra

The growing numbers of hospitality professionals are entering into the labor market every year that create force on academic institutions to redesign their curricula, inculcate right kind of skills & qualifications in hospitality professionals and reconcile the gap between educational programs and demand of labor market. In today’s scenario, job creation is the biggest challenges by the Indian Government; hence, entrepreneurial intention has been a dynamic field of study. Most of hospitality graduates entered in the labor market by getting positions in government or private sectors, some of them move to allied fields like retail, call centers, marketing, etc and few turn towards entrepreneurship. The present study tried to explore the factors affecting entrepreneurial intentions among hospitality students in the academic institutions of Haryana State. The questionnaire was used to collect the data from 180 hospitality students. The findings revealed that the respondents were considering and interested towards entrepreneurship although pull and push factors were affecting their entrepreneurial intentions. The finding of the study also depicted that by providing quality education, hospitality professionals may inspire to be an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship, Hospitality Students, Intentions, Push Factors and Pull Factors.

"Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intentions among Hospitality Students", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.525-531, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905N80.pdf

"Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intentions among Hospitality Students", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp525-531, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905N80.pdf