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| College of Art and Crafts, Khallikote, Ganjam |
To bridge the demand supply gap
in human resources for the hospitality sector, the state government proses to
set up a second State Institute for Hotel Management (SIHM) at Khallikote in
Ganjam district after Bolangir. For establishing the institute, the planning
and coordination department has asked the tourism department to provide
detailed project report including availability of land, courses to be imparted
with durations, intake capacity for different courses, total financial
implications for the project, staffing pattern etc by observing the guide lines
of Government of India (GoI). “The Director of Tourism has asked the Principal,
Institute of Hotel Management, Bhubaneswar
to draw the DPR while the Director of Culture has been asked to earmark about
five acre of land around the government college of art and craft, Khallikote,”
said an official in the tourism department. He said, after the finalization of
the DPR, the proposal will be forwarded to the Centre for approval.
At present, the government runs
two institutes in the state with intake of capacity of 593 students while there
are about 13 private colleges providing courses in the hotel management. Similarly,
the state government is mulling to start three year Bachelor Degree Courses in
Hotel and Hospitality management at SIHM, Bolangir and is likely to send a
proposal soon to the Centre in this regard. Opening of more institutes in the
sector assume significance as many premium category hotels like Taj Group of
Hotel and ITC hotels have lined up investment plans in Odisha while Roots
Corporation Limited (RCL) - a subsidiary of Indian Hotel Company Limited that
runs Ginger hotels in the economy category are on expansion mode. Mayfair
Hotels & Resorts and Trident are the only two hotels in Odisha operating in
the five star deluxe brackets with total room strength of 164. Industry experts
say, the annual average occupancy of these two five star hotels is expected to
be around 70 per cent. In 2010-11, approximately 53,212 foreign tourists
visited the state, while the number has increased to 62,816 in 2011-12.
Source: Business Standard
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