• mahesh chand meena
• VIJAY KUMAR

Hospitality and tourism industries includes Hotel, Catering and Tourism Sector (HCTS). Being a service industry, the manpower is the blood of any tourism and hospitality organization. Tourism is promoted by the government because it offers the potential for creating jobs, generating income for the country and revenue for the government. Most job opportunities from airlines, hotels, travel agencies, handicrafts and cultural and other tourism-related activities. Currently Travel & Tourism provides employment to approximately 31 million (both direct & indirect) people throughout the country and this number is predicted to rise to over 40 million by 2019 and over 43 million by 2022. There are several human resource problems in the tourism & hospitality industry viz., shortage of quailed manpower, inadequate and inefficient training and education programs, working conditions in the Tourism Industry, lack of proper strategies and policies for HRD, low wages, high staff turnover. Tourism in India accounts for 7.5 per cent of the GDP and is that the third largest exchange earner for the country. it's expected to tourism industry in India generate US$275.5 billion by 2018 at a 9.4% annual rate of growth . The Ministry of Tourism plans to assist the industry meet the increasing demand of skilled and trained manpower by providing hospitality education to students.

Foreign Exchange Earnings, Human Resource, Job Opportunities, National Tourism Policy, Training and Development.

"Human Resource Management in Tourism and Hospitality Industry in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no.1125-1127, September-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009154.pdf

"Human Resource Management in Tourism and Hospitality Industry in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no. pp1125-1127, September-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009154.pdf