Chandigarh is union territory and capital city of states of Punjab & Haryana, India. It’s the cleanest city in India and has the highest per capita income in whole nation. With a new IT park, it’s scenic beauty and its strategic location Chandigarh is becoming a heaven for hotel industry.

The amount of hotels in Chandigarh has nearly doubled in last five years; this has resulted into a strong need of staff for hotel management. As we all know, that hotel industry comes under hospitality where we require not only a skilful staff but also a staff which have been groomed and chiselled throughout their experience and can really make customer handling a cake walk.
The need of employees for hotel management in Chandigarh could be gauged from the fact that, A city that never had a 5 star will be having 3 by next year. Here is a list of recently opened and upcoming large scale hotels in Chandigarh.

JW Marriot Chandigarh:
It is the first addition into Chandigarh’s 5 star hotel club. JW Marriott hotel started its operation from last year. They have capacity of 164 spacious rooms including 4 suites and 1 presidential suite.
The lalit hotel, chandigarh:
The lalit, Chandigarh will be opened in Rajiv Gandhi technology park Chandigarh. It is planned to be operational by 2013. This will be a 200 room hotel and will be spread in the area span of 4 acres.
Raddison hotel, chandigarh:
Carlson’s group planned to open a 125 room Radisson hotel in zirakpur, this is aimed to cater the tourists visiting Chandigarh tricity & moving towards shimla. It will be opening in this year.
The Ashok, Chandigarh:
Chandigarh Ashok is situated nearest to airport of all the hotels and got opened in august 2010. It’s a ITDC run hotel and provides a nice venue for your parties & corporate meetings along with facility of luxurious stay.

So, all the above developments gives a clear indicator that hotel management industry in Chandigarh is at its boom. Hence there is also a need of more manpower that can be used for hotel management & catering in this region.
RIMT institute of hotel management and catering technology is one such college that realized the need of hour and is providing the best training services for hotel management in Punjab. At RIMT we prepare students to take various roles in hospitality industries like:
* Restaurant Management/Fast Food Joint Management
* Club Management/Recreation & Health Centre Management
* Hospital Administration and Catering
* Institutional and Industrial Catering
* Airline & Cruise ship Catering and Cabin Services
* Hotel and Tourism Associations
* Catering Departments in banks and insurance houses
* With government owned catering departments, for example railway, armed forces, ministerial conventions, etc.
* In food, confectionery, beverage production industries.