The Hospitality Concepts

The history of travel is a great landmark in the field of tourism industry. Travel is as old as mankind. From the time of immemorial, people started the traveling due to the various causes. It may be the purpose of the economic, social, cultural, spiritual achievement of the human being. Travel in the distant past, however, was not undertaken for the purpose of pleasure since the motive was not to seek any holiday from the work situation. The primary motive for which travel was undertaken related to trade, commerce and the activities associated with it. No travel formalities existed as there were no frontiers. The history of travel can be divided into mainly seven divisions. These can be: 1. Early Travel 2. Pleasure Travel 3. Travel in Middle 4. Travel in Renaissance 5. Emergency of spas and seaside Resorts. 6. The Industrial Revolution Period 7. Air transport system The Early Travel: Since the dawn of the civilization we have the evidence that, human beings were remaining busy for the

Tips on Food & Dining Etiquettes Meetings are conducted over power breakfasts, interview at leisurely lunches and business deals celebrated with indulgent dinners. The restaurant is no more a place for just a meal; it’s the venue for introductions, negotiations, strengthening affiliations and celebrations. Choosing the right restaurant for the occasion and the mood is important in both professional and social situations. While in India, some fine-dining restaurants may accommodate you without a reservation; this is not the case in the west. Always make a reservation, and make sure you are on time. Some restaurant insist on dinner jacket and tie; if you aren’t wearing one then they will often, but not always, loan you the same. Check beforehand. Open-toed shoes and dress shorts are never permitted. Fine – Dining & Casual Restaurants can be broadly divided into two categories: fine-dining and casual. Though fine-dining restaurants are a lot more casual, they still maintain very h

In general tourism is concerned with pleasure travel, holidays and going somewhere. These are the motivations by which a person or people are leaving their normal place of work and residence for short period of time temporarily to other place or a temporary break with a normal routine to engage in a new experience. Tourism is a temporary and short-term movement of people which is outside the place where the so called tourists live, work and stay. Tourists are voluntary temporary travelers, traveling in the expectations of pleasure. Person traveling to convention or business purposes are also the tourists. Tourism relates the temporary, short-term movement of people to destination outside the place where they normally live and work and their activities during their stay at these destinations. It is a pleasure activity in which money earned in one’s normal domicile is spent in the places visited. In other words tourism is the totality of the relationship and phenomenon arising from the t

Sir Francis Crick, the Nobel laureate, says there are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in our universe and he believes there are at least one million planets in our galaxy that could support life as we know it. Think of what the figure might be for the entire universe, even before we start looking at other dimensions of existence beyond the frequency range of our physical senses. If we travelled at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, it would take us 4.3 years to reach the nearest star to this solar system. All over the planet are fantastic structures built thousands of years ago which could only have been created with technology as good as, often even better than, we have today. At Baalbek, north east of Beirut in the Lebanon, three massive chunks of stone, each weighing 800 tons, were moved at least a third of a mile and positioned high up in a wall. This was done thousands of years BC! Another block nearby weighs 1,000 tons - the weight of three jumbo jets. How was this

The earth’ history is 4.5 billion years old when all the continents which we see today were not in this shape & position. Amazingly these continents were close to each other! By 750 million years ago the earth’s mass combined to ‘Supercontinent’. And surrounding this ‘Supercontinent’ there was also an extensive ocean. Roughly 750 Ma (million years ago), the earliest-known supercontinent Rodinia , began to break apart. The continents later recombined to form Pannotia , 600–540 Ma, then finally Pangaea which is “All Earth” in Greek. Then about 200 million years ago the land began to drift apart. It broke into two pieces, · Laurasia – the northern supercontinent- splits in Eurasia and North America · Gondwanaland - the southern supercontinent which consisted § Antarctica, § South America § Africa § India and § Australia. The two large continents continued to break apart into the smaller continents that exist today. Eduard Suess, an Austrian geologist named it ‘Gondwanaland’. The nam

Dear Friends, Seasons Greetings!!! This blog has been started to create a community of hospitality professionals who sincerly feels that sharing broadens up the knowledge spectrum. Simultaneously our effor would be to include all possible information about hospitality, tourism and related industry. All are heartly welcome!!! Yes, one thing I would like to mention here that life is good and sharing of usable information makes it even better. So keep blogging!!! Here I've added a Quiz which can be used to break monotony of class. https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AS21ie015ePrZGN4emdiamhfMzdjcDI5cGZ6Yg&hl=en&authkey=CO_ph-IE