A study of hospitality industry: Opportunities & Problems

The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within service industry that includes lodging, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry. Hotel industry worldwide has facing a situation of both growth and problems. Hospitality industry is growing at a very fast pace in the recent years, especially in the developing countries like India its growth is significant. Increase in the income of middle class Indian has a significant role to play in this. Now days a lot of Indian families go for lunch, dinner and also for refreshments in the hotels and the most significant part is the increase in number of holiday's package taken by the Indian families? This lead to the increase in number of hotels in India, but as the industry grows it also increase the number of problems for hotel industry. In this paper author tries to take a look on these problems and also suggest some points to overcome this problems. In this paper, author on one hand take a look on general problems of hospitality industry and on the other he take a special focus on the problems of hotel industry in Uttrakhand. The state is among the top ten most preferred states by tourists in India but it is also the state which faces most number of problems in hospitality industry mostly because of its geography.