Hospitality education and advisory committees in Indian Universities: An analysis of academic success

During the last decade, hospitality education has become very popular in Indian Universities.  The Credit for this goes to the unprecedented growth and development  of the service sector.  Many Universities are coming up with new hospitality courses without creating academic infrastructure and industry linkages.  Linking hospitality management programmes to the industry is critical for the success of hospitality educational institutions and is the need of the hour.  The endeavours of this article is to encourage hospitality educators to look beyond their academic infrastructure and to create valuable linkages with industrial advisory committees for the development of students by equipping them with knowledge base and developed thinking for the fulfilment of various tasks, and what the hospitality industry expects from the University hotel graduates.