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Future At Hospitality

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--By Upashana Neupane
 
It has been 14 years since the BHM (Bachelors in Hotel Management) course has been offered in Nepal’s educational institutes. Since then, Nepal has acquired a good image in the international market for a degree in hospitality. Being a relatively easy job but with attractive pay, the appeal of the BHM programme continues to grow. Besides, Nepali students are in demand and well-placed too in the international market because of their innate sense of hospitality.  
 
Some of the regions where Nepali students are in demand include Arabic countries, Japan, Canada, USA and Europe. “The world of global business and international travels for health and education has kept the hospitality business thriving,” says Principal of International School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Samjhana Basnet. “This sector thus never goes out of business,” she says. 
 
A charming attitude, welcoming gait and loyalty are some of the traits of Nepali students that contribute to their positive image in the international market. Besides, the growth of the hospitality sector here too has kept the popularity of this career line intact. 
 
Most Nepali BHM colleges offer foreign internships to their students. As most hotels in Nepal have not collaborated with Nepali colleges, the colleges are obliged to send their students abroad. Besides, Nepali hotels charge for internships while foreign internships offer to pay. Students, anyway, are attracted to a foreign certificate and placement as compared to getting placements in Nepal. The international exposure gained definitely helps to market students better in the hospitality industry here. 
 
The hospitality industry in Nepal traces its origin to the times of the Rana rulers who brought cooks and waiters from India to serve guests in their palaces. Workers in the palace picked up their culinary skills, which passed on among people, gradually spreading enough for entrepreneurs to establish their own hotels after the advent of democracy. With Nepal’s leap into tourism development, the hospitality business took upon industrial speed.
 
Realising the scarcity of skilled manpower in the growing industry, the government with the help of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) established an institute called the Hotel Management and Tourism Training Centre (HMTTC) in 1972. Later in 1999 when Tribhuwan University included  hotel management course under the faculty of management, the HMTTC got converted into a college named Nepal Academy of Tourism and Hotel Management (NATHAM) - the only public college to run a BHM course. While NATHAM was the first institute to run the BHM course in Nepal, Pokhara University (PU) got its permission to run a BHM programme a little earlier.  
 
Lately, BHM studies is a  popular choice among students in Nepal. Besides TU and PU, Purwanchal University and Kathmandu University are offering BHM programmes as well and so are various colleges with foreign affiliation. There are currently more than two dozen colleges in Nepal offering BHM courses with total fees ranging from three to five hundred thousand rupees.
 

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