The factors that have influenced final year students’ university malaysia kelantan in pursuing a career in the hospitality industry

Most students who want to study hospitality and hotel management in Malaysia do not know how this subject is taught in universities. In summary, hotel management combines business, tourism, and culinary skills. University Malaysia Kelantan is one of the universities that presents hospitality costs t...

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Main Authors: Roszulaika Binti Rosli, Ainaa Syafiqah Binti Abdul Manan, Noor Anissa Farhana Binti Kamal, Muhammad Amirul Faiz Bin Adnnan
Format: Undergraduate Final Project Report
Language:English
Published: 2022
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/13951/1/H31.pdf
http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/13951/
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Summary:Most students who want to study hospitality and hotel management in Malaysia do not know how this subject is taught in universities. In summary, hotel management combines business, tourism, and culinary skills. University Malaysia Kelantan is one of the universities that presents hospitality costs to students in Malaysia. This study was conducted to find out and study the influencing factors in persuading to continue a career in the hospitality industry. A total of 118 University Malaysia Kelantan students in the hospitality sector, especially final year students, were sampled to answer random questionnaires to complete this study. This question focuses on factors that have influenced in pursuing a career in the hospitality industry. Furthermore, the questions also focus on several factors which are related to social status, salary/benefit, and nature of work. This study was conducted because many students have taken the cost of hospitality, but they feel doubtful about the journey of this cost. There are also post-graduate students who feel that after graduation, there are no bright job opportunities for their careers. Furthermore, the main data for the study collected by using a structured questionnaire, and the analysis was made by using SPSS software. The survey was distributed to 123 respondents of final year students in University Malaysia Kelantan. In this study, descriptive, reliability tests, and correlation analysis were utilized to process the data. So, this study enables researchers to know more the factors that have influenced final year students in the University Malaysia Kelantan regarding careers in the hospitality industry. Keywords: Hospitality industry, university students, social status, salary/benefits, nature of work.