I studied hotel management, and I stayed in the hotel for half a year. To tell you the truth, hotel management is a good job, because the service industry is the most lacking. But even if you can work, you may not want to, because the treatment is not good, and you are very tired and suffer indignities. The general college of hotel management will assign you an internship hotel. The internship period is longer than any other major (according to the statistics of our college, I don't know about other universities). If you are in poor health, you may not be able to afford it, because you often stay up late and hurt your kidneys. If you are not tall enough (generally speaking, girls are above 161 and boys are above 175), only those who have advantages in appearance can enter a more relaxed department, otherwise they will be assigned to guest rooms and the like. The front office has certain advantages, but it is easy to lose money, because it is in charge of the cashier, and it is necessary to learn the operating system, and it is more brainy than other departments, of course, excluding the business center. Business centers are generally more secretarial in nature, and there are salesmen and the like.
Besides, the quality of hotel staff is not very high. Some people always find fault with you for an excuse, just like you are a college student and sorry for her. There are many places where there are many women. If you are a boy, you will usually go to the concierge department to help guests carry luggage, and you will get a lot of tips (here refers to high-star hotels, and low-star hotels rarely receive tips. China people in mainland cities don't have the habit of tipping, but most foreigners have this habit. Some hotels stipulate that tips should be paid in part, and the proportion should be set by the manager for redistribution).
To learn hotel management, you generally need to take two qualification certificates: room service certificate and catering service certificate. There are three grades: out, middle and high. Our college is directly taking the intermediate exam. Generally organized by the college itself. I think it's still very easy. The guest room mainly has the examination subjects of making beds and some services, and the dining is mainly setting tables and the like.
I don't need any management knowledge. I mainly study hotel human resource management at school. Hotel situational English and so on. Hotels in the mainland value skills, while Shenzhen and Shanghai value English more. Because there are more foreigners, good English can help them get into better departments, or they can only do manual labor in guest rooms.