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here are more opportunities in himself while he earned his undergraduate of Houston, by the year 2010 the Hospitality
Hospitality & Tourism—and they degree in psychology, and ended up loving & Tourism industry will employ 1 billion
are more varied—than in any other it so much that he forgot all about becoming people worldwide and generate $1.5 trillion
industry in the world,” says Paul Serff, a psychiatrist and went into the hotel in revenues.
president and CEO of the Texas Travel business. Today, he runs a 200-hotel chain.”
Industry Association. “It’s also one of the What’s the moral of these stories? “If
most accessible to all levels of education— you love this industry, and you have a
this is one industry where you can start passion for it, you can go all kinds of places,”
out waiting tables, and end up running Serff concludes.
the restaurant.”
Serff, who has been in Hospitality & Texas Travel
Tourism for nearly 40 years, is full of Statistics vary, but by most accounts,
examples of rags-to-riches tales: “I know the Hospitality & Tourism cluster is the
one young lady who got a part-time job nation’s third-largest source of employment,
as a sweeperette at a Busch Gardens park, surpassed only by government and health
and ended up as the CEO of a major theme care. According to the nationally acclaimed
park,” he says. “I know someone else who Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and
got a job as a bellman at a hotel to support Restaurant Management at the University
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Take this quiz to find out. Answer “yes” or “no” to the following questions.
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do you Are you do you Would you Can you juggle do you Are you able Can you do you Can you put
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enjoy working comfortable work well be interested several tasks consider to work long handle intense value the needs of
with people? talking in as part of a in living in at the same yourself a hours, deadline diversity? the customer
front of groups team? a foreign time? “high-energy” weekends, or pressure? before your
of people? country? person? evenings? own needs?
If you answered “yes” to five or more of the above questions, Hospitality & Tourism may be the right cluster for you. To get a more specific and scientific
measurement of your attitudes and abilities, ask your guidance counselor or teacher about taking a career assessment test or interest inventory.
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