The factors that have influenced final-year students’ Universiti Malaysia Kelantan in pursuing a career in the hospitality industry

Abstract

Most students who wanted to studied hospitality and hotel management in Malaysia did not knew how this subject was taught in universities. In summary, hotel management combines business, tourism, and culinary skills. University Malaysia Kelantan was one of the universities that presents hospitality costed to students in Malaysia. This studied was conducted to found out and studied 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, was sampled to answered random questionnaires to complete this studied. This question focuses on factors that had influenced in pursuing a career in the hospitality industry. Furthermore, the questions also focus on several factors which were related to social status, salary/benefit, and nature of worked. This studied was conducted because many students had taken the costed of hospitality, but they felt doubtful about the journey of this costed. There were also post-graduate students who felt that after graduation, there were no bright job opportunities for their careers. Furthermore, the main data for the studied collected by used a structured questionnaire, and the analysis was made by used SPSS software. The surveyed was distributed to 123 respondents of final year students in university Malaysia Kelantan. In this studied, descriptive, reliability tests, and correlation analysis was utilized to process the data. So, this studied enables researchers to knew more the factors that had influenced final year students in the university Malaysia Kelantan regarding careers in the hospitality industry.