Top 10 Travel & Tourism Colleges - 2022

In today’s era, travel and tourism is an increasingly growing sector among the services industry. As people love to travel around the country and worldwide for clearing their minds and rejuvenating their lives, post COVID, there’s a renewed optimism within them where they’re keen to experience things and places,at large. Also, in India, the Travel & Tourism is currently experiencing unprecedented growth. It’s one of the largest and most profitable industriesplaying an important role in the economic scaling of GDP, deploying more & more skilled and unskilled employees. As per WTTC reports, while India ranked 10th among 185 countries in terms of travel & tourism’s total contribution to GDP by 6.8 percent of the economy in 2019, i.e., $194.30 billion,the industry is expected to create over 45 million jobs in India by 2025. However, pertaining to the human resources and personnel involved in tourism development and the sustainability still remains a challenge due to lack of sustainability-based work, culture, professional ethics, and operational practices necessary for smooth upliftment of the industry. Hence, to cope up with the growing demand for skilled manpower requirements to run the tourist offices, hotels, travel agencies, airlines effectively and efficiently, there are a number of travel & tourism courses in India provided by the well-established and existing tourism & hospitality colleges, which offer some full-time tourism management courses too.And, respectively, it is the contribution of such lineated educationstructures crafted for the travel market in India, that had led the market toexpect to reach $125 billion by 2027, rising from an estimated $ 75 billion value in 2020, as per the IBEF reports. Higher Education Review, in this issue presents a list of ‘Top 10 Travel & Tourism Colleges - 2022’ who have been offering best-in-class education in the country. The following list has been prepared after being closely scrutinized by a distinguished panel of judges including CXOs, analysts and our editorial board.