IMPACT OF COVID – 19 ON HOSPITALITY EDUCATION

Hospitality is an age old concept with numerous dimensions. In that line hospitality education has grown and evolved over the years. Considering the history of education and systematic development of educational branches, hospitality is comparatively a much younger form of education. It has been passed on from generations to generations and yet it’s documented and frame worked education started just a little more than century back. Covid – 19 pandemic touched every aspect and literal part of human life and education was definitely no exception. Pandemic hit lives directly and indirectly. With education system not completely evolved to go in virtual mode and with vocational education like hospitality which needs greater practical exposure, it definitely is a long term challenge for educators and students. Tourism & hospitality industry is directly affected with pandemic shows effect on the aspirants of this career. The research paper focuses on the challenges faced by the teaching community and the solutions opted to overcome those challenges. The research also attempts to evaluate the outcome of the solutions practiced and whether these solutions are only temporary remedies or can be further evolved as a permanent methodologies. This research reaches to an open end of the outcome since neither the pandemic is yet over nor the hospitality education is going to stop. Hospitality education is ever evolving since this industry itself is ever growing and encompassing every inch of the globe and every aspect of the human culture