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With exciting opportunities such as Translator, Adventure Sports Trainer, Naturalist etc on offer, Tourism as a career option is catching up with students in India. The tremendous growth of Tourism industry in the country in the past one and half decade, enthusiastic and energetic students are finding the career as most lucrative and joyful. The galore of opportunities in tourism, hospitality, airlines, medical tourism, Eco-tourism and adventure sports, graduates, post graduates and diploma holders of Tourism and Hospitality education are finding it easy to cash in on the growing opportunities. Following is the brief description of various careers associated with tourism and hospitality along with some reputed institutes across the country.

1) Tour Operators: The job of tour operator consist of creating a complete tour package for the client. The package may includes accommodation, travel plans, sight seeing etc. The career of tour operator starts at the position of executive trainee and may get a stipend of Rs. 6000 – 12000 per month depending on the educational qualification and communication skills.

2) Hospitality Sector: Tourism graduates can find lucrative opportunities with hospitality and hotel management sectors. The hospitality sector is a conglomeration of different integrated departments such as the front office, food and beverages, housekeeping, back office etc. Most crucial skill required to excel in this career is maintaining guest relationship. Students may think that the hospitality is nothing but jobs related to hotel management. But the candidates can now enter into various other sectors like BPOs and Airlines with attractive remuneration.

3) Adventure Sports: If you are a dashing and daring person, and like to go crazy with adventure activities like para-sailing, kayaking, rafting, mountaineering, skiing, sky diving, there are good opportunities opening up for you. Courses are available in almost all the adventure sports. After finishing the course that you like, you may settle as an independent instructor or can associate with a training institute as trainer. But starting your own adventure institute / company can yield better results.

4) Airlines: Sales and Air Ticketing are the most popular and demanding opportunities in this sector. Students may need to use relevant software for jobs in air ticketing and reservations. Guest Service Executive, Operator are other attractive options in the airlines field.

5) Medical Tourism and Eco-Tourism: Tourism is also offering lucrative opportunities for doctors, nurses, technicians, travel coordinators, translators etc in the form of medical tourism. The salaries in the sector are depend on qualifications and experience. Eco-Turism is more or less a part of Hotel Management. If you are more adventurous, you could enter into careers like naturalistand park guide. The average initial salary for a park guide would be around Rs. 10000 per month.

Some reputed institutes offering Tourism, Hospitality and Allied courses:

1. Amro Tourism Academy and College of Hotel Management, Nashik, Maharashtra.
2. Amity School of Hospitality, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
3. Christ College, Bangalore, Karnataka
4. College of Hospitality and Tourism, Faridabad
5. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi
6. Heritage Institute of Hotel and Tourism, Agra
7. Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling, West Bengal
8. Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai
9. International Institute of Hotel Management, Delhi
10. National Institute of Watersports, Goa
11. National Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarakhand
12. Pusa Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, New Delhi.

Are you thinking of out of the box careers in Engineering and Technology fields? There are really excellent opportunities for several emerging engineering branches like Petroleum Engineering, Polymers Technology Industrial Engineering, Power Management etc. Following are some of the best institutes offering courses in these emerging specialisations. There are highly specialised branches and institutions for careers in power engineering, Aeronautical engineering etc. You can pursue Bachelors, Post Bachelors, Diploma, Post Diploma and Post Graduate Programs in most of these specialisations.

Usually candidates with +2 education in Mathematics / Physics / Chemistry subjects are eligible for most of the programs. Institutes conductes their own admission entrance tests and may also admit based on the all India rankings in IIT JEE, AIEEE or other state level entrance examinations. Following are the details of institutes for various specialised and modern branches:

Institutes for Petroleum Engineering Technology:

1. Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
2. University of Petroleum and Energy studies (UPES),Gurgaon, Hariyana
3. Bharatidasan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Tiruchirapalli
4. Aligarh University, Institute of Petroleum Studies and Chemical Engineering, Aligarh
5. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere
6. Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune
7. Amaravati University, Amravati
8. Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur
9. Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune

Colleges offering Polymers, Plastics and Rubber Technology:

1. Anna University, Chennai
2. Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur
3. Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
4. College of Engineering and Technology, Akola
5. Mahatma Gandhi University, Thodupuzha
6. LD College of Engineering, Ahmedabad
7. Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi
8. Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore

Aeronautical / Aerospace Engineering Colleges:

1. Indian Institutes of Technology (Madras / Kanpur / Kharagpur / Mumbai)
2. Anna University, Chennai
3. Centre for Civil Aviation Training, New Delhi
4. Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh
5. Hindustan College of Engineering, Chennai
6. Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh
7. Park College of Engineering Technology, Tirupur
8. Nehru Group of Institutions, Coimbatore

Ceramics Engineering Colleges:

1. Anna University, Chennai
2. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
3. Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
4. Ceramic Institute of Technology and Research, Rajasthan
5. College of Ceramic Technology, Kolkata
6. Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering, Gulbarga

Other Specialisations / Branches and respective colleges:

1. Fibre Technology: Institute of Jute Technology, Kolkata
2. Irrigation Water Management : MS University of Baroda, Vadodara
3. Naval Architecture Colleges: 1. Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 2. Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUST), Kochi 3. Indian Institute of Technology Madras
4. Paints Technology Colleges: 1. Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur 2. University Department of Chemical Technology, Mumbai 3. North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon
5. Industrial Engineering: National Institute of Industrial Engineering, NITIE P.O., Mumbai
6. Power Management: National Power Training Institute (NPTI), Faridabad (Has center in Nagpur and some other cities)
7. Foundry and Forge Technology: National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi

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