National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology - NCHMCT

National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology is an autonomous body under Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. The Council centrally regulates academics for hospitality and hotel administration and other eleven structured courses of studies that are imparted at the existing 21Central Institutes of Hotel Management, 7 State Govt. Institutes of Hotel Management, 7 Private Institutes of Hotel Management affiliated with NCHMCT and 6 Food Craft Institutes located in different parts of the country. All Institutes uniformly follow standardized course curricula prescribed by the Council for the different professional programmes.

Quality of education and training provided by the Institutes help students to emerge as professionally qualified personnel for hospitality and other allied service sectors. The Council has till date trained more than 40000 Hospitality Managers, Executives and other operational personnel. Its alumni from affiliated Institutes occupy key positions in hospitality industry and in academic institutions both in India and abroad.

Global growth and development of tourism have opened up innumerable openings, as a result graduate can look forward to career opportunities

• Management Trainee in Hotel and allied hospitality industry
• Kitchen Management/ House keeping Management Trainee in Hotels
• Flight Kitchens and on-board flight services also offer career opportunities
• Guest/ Customer Relation Executive in Hotel and other Service Sectors
• Executive in international and national fast food chains
• Positions in Hospital and Institutional Catering
• Faculty Hotel Management/ Food Craft Institutes( after relevant work experience)
• Shipping and Cruiselines
• Hospitality Marketing/ Sales Executive in Hotel and other Service Sectors.
• Hotel Executive in State Tourism Development Corporations
• Resort Hospitality Executive and Spa Management
• Self employment through entrepreneurship
• Other multinational companies for their hospitality operations

On national level about 80% graduates are employed by Hospitality and other service sectors through campus recruitment from IHMs affiliated with NCHMCT