School of Hotel Management & Tourism and Division of Career Services at Lovely Professional University organized first-ever mammoth global hotel industry’ ‘HR Summit’ at LPU campus, where 18 HR Stalwarts from national & international hotel industry addressed thousands of management students. On this occasion, His Excellency High Commissioner of Namibia to India, Gabriel P Sinimbo also graced the ‘Summit’ specifically with his benign presence. Addressing the galaxy of intellectuals, HE Sinimbo referred India as an incredible country with great human resource, and offered entrepreneurial opportunities in his fast developed country, particularly in the areas of tourism. Gathered HR leaders at the summit included Directors, GMs, Heads, and Consultants from 16 top national & international Hotel-Chains.
All of them pondered on “Future Trends in
Hospitality” to churn out the propagating ideas for the betterment of the
students, sector and the society. Participating Hotel Groups included Taj
Hotels, Radisson Blu, Park Hotel, Hilton Garden Inn, Hyatt Regency, ITC
Gardenia, Pullman, Grand Hotel, Marriott International, Vivanta, Suryaa Hotel,
Eagle Group and more. Probably, this was the biggest ever Hotel Management
summit organised by any university or college in North India to understand the
close working of educational institutes and industry. Key note speaker of the
inaugural session was Director Human Resources (The Park Hotel) Deepak Behl.
Providing excellent data, he assured all would-be young hoteliers at LPU School
of Hotel Management & Tourism that with new openings future of hospitality
industry is very promising.
On
behalf of all other participating HR people, he emphasized that their
collective participation is out of social responsibility to awaken, inspire and
rightly guide the forthcoming human resource in this sector. On this occasion,
his motivating 222 paged book, titled ‘Winning is Everything’, was also
launched. Prior to this, LPU Director General Er HR Singla inaugurated the
summit; Director Division of International Affairs Mr Aman Mittal introduced
the elite guest of the day H.E. Namibian High Commissioner to the audience;
and, Professor Dr Garcha set the context of the summit by inviting all to have
frontal attack on all that is inhospitable in the hospitality sector,
and
to bring forth great thoughts of growth & development. It was also upheld
that at LPU the hall-mark for hotel management industry is human touch with
meaningful solutions. Executive Dean Dr Sanjay Modi and Head-Division of Career
Services Dr Harpal Thethi streamlined the summit, where distinguished
professionals of the HR world got engaged in discussions to meet new challenges
and create the best opportunities. The summit held at Shanti Devi Mittal
Auditorium, indeed, brought rare opportunities for students to share their
ideas with proficient executives in the field.