Career Guidance Handbook 2014
Occupational Category -9: Hospitality and Tourism
Hospitality & Tourism encompasses the management, marketing and operations of restaurants and other food services, lodging, attractions, recreation events and travel related services.
Career Pathways in Hospitality and Tourism
Lodging and Housekeeping Services
This pathway includes all the jobs required for hotels, motels, inns, and resorts to function and serve guests. Jobs include lodging manager, janitorial worker, front desk attendant, bellhop, concierge, and housekeeper.
Food Production and Services
This is the largest pathway in this cluster, and includes all the jobs in restaurants, catering services, and anywhere else where food is served.
Jobs include waiter, waitress, wine steward, chef and cook, bartender, food safety inspector, dietician and nutritionist, food technologist, institutional food service worker, and restaurant and facilities manager.
Recreation, Gaming, and Sports
This career pathway includes jobs in amusement parks, sports stadiums, and recreation centers. Jobs in this pathway are quite varied, from professional athletes and umpires to amusement park workers, from lifeguards to blackjack dealers.
Travel and Tourism Services
This pathway comprises all the jobs involved in planning and booking travel reservations, leading tours, and planning special events. Jobs include travel agent, travel promotion worker, tour director, and convention management.
The Uganda's tourism and hospitality industry is still young and growing.
It has vast potential for offering career opportunities for most of the young people, in terms of employment. You can be directly and indirectly involved in a chain of supportive economic activities like guiding, transport, arts and craft making, accommodation and catering.
Appropriate combinations at 'A' Level:
PCB/FN, PCB/ AGRIC, MEG/ENT, MEG/ART, PEM/ENT, PEM/ART, All Arts combinations plus GP
Subjects at “O” Level:
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Foods & Nutrition, Home Management and All the remaining Arts Subjects.
Courses and Career Development Prospects
Career Pathways in Hospitality and Tourism
Lodging and Housekeeping Services
This pathway includes all the jobs required for hotels, motels, inns, and resorts to function and serve guests. Jobs include lodging manager, janitorial worker, front desk attendant, bellhop, concierge, and housekeeper.
Food Production and Services
This is the largest pathway in this cluster, and includes all the jobs in restaurants, catering services, and anywhere else where food is served.
Jobs include waiter, waitress, wine steward, chef and cook, bartender, food safety inspector, dietician and nutritionist, food technologist, institutional food service worker, and restaurant and facilities manager.
Recreation, Gaming, and Sports
This career pathway includes jobs in amusement parks, sports stadiums, and recreation centers. Jobs in this pathway are quite varied, from professional athletes and umpires to amusement park workers, from lifeguards to blackjack dealers.
Travel and Tourism Services
This pathway comprises all the jobs involved in planning and booking travel reservations, leading tours, and planning special events. Jobs include travel agent, travel promotion worker, tour director, and convention management.
The Uganda's tourism and hospitality industry is still young and growing.
It has vast potential for offering career opportunities for most of the young people, in terms of employment. You can be directly and indirectly involved in a chain of supportive economic activities like guiding, transport, arts and craft making, accommodation and catering.
Appropriate combinations at 'A' Level:
PCB/FN, PCB/ AGRIC, MEG/ENT, MEG/ART, PEM/ENT, PEM/ART, All Arts combinations plus GP
Subjects at “O” Level:
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Foods & Nutrition, Home Management and All the remaining Arts Subjects.
Courses and Career Development Prospects
- Leisure & Hospitality Mgt
- Wildlife Health & Management
- Horticulture
- Development Economics
- Environmental Science
- Catering & Hotel Management
- Forestry
- Telecom Engineering
- Human Nutrition & Dietetics
- Sports & Leisure Management
- Secretarial Studies
- Hotel & Institutional Catering
- Sociology
- Social Work
- Hotel Management
- Tourism
- Physiotherapy
- Music, Dance and Drama
- Environmental Health Science
- Hotel & Restaurant Management
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