• Dr. Archana Janjal
• Rayan Wasif
• Arshad Sayyed

The pandemic had caused a major loss to every industry especially hospitality industry which got affected majorly. This was an extensive research carried out to study the impact of COVID-19 on the hospitality students and to understand their psychological wellbeing, the skills developed, their mind-set to maintain psychological, physical and emotional wellbeing during lockdown, preferences with regards to any career changes in the future and views about entrepreneurship.There were certain limitations to this research. The research was based on the existing situations of pandemics and the information can change in the future, so more could be understood about this topic in different time frames. In the future, we can also explore how entrepreneurial initiatives helped students and if colleges bring changes in their education by having a subject related to entrepreneurship, how it will affect students. Thus, this topic has a vast scope to research more on it considering different angles related to it and going deep in the topic or sub-topics related to it. After carrying out the (online) survey a great deal of information with respect to all the central objectives were gathered and based on this the researcher derived on the following conclusion that Participants were quite worried about their career witnessing the situation of the hotel industry during the COVID-19, participants were unsure about their career perspective and considerable number of participants had no intentions to join the hotel industry and they chose to switch to a new career option. Most of them had some or the other plans. Entrepreneurship was one of the option which attracted many students and various business ideas had cropped up in their heads during the pandemic. Institutes should emphasize on a mix of regular subjects with vocational subjects which cover various aspects related to hospitality industry to bring diverse business ideas for students rendering a vast scope for Entrepreneurship Development. Thus it'll take efforts of students as well as colleges to tackle all the problems that have arisen during this pandemic and there are various new things to learn as well and there are various beneficial changes can be made in the curriculum that can bring academics and entrepreneurial initiatives to the non-conventional skill development leading to overall career growth covering diverse career avenues related to hospitality industry.

Pandemic, Covid 19, Hospitality, Entrepreneureship

"Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hospitality Students With Regards to Entrepreneurial Initiative.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.a135-a151, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206019.pdf

"Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hospitality Students With Regards to Entrepreneurial Initiative.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppa135-a151, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206019.pdf