Hotel Management Students Going To Qatar For Fifa World Cup

For the 2022  Fifa World Cup, hundreds of hotel management graduates and trainees are departing from Calcutta for Qatar.

They will work at front desks, housekeeping, food and beverage departments, and kitchens at hotels. They will work on the service teams in the hospitality boxes at the stadiums or in the kitchen.

From November 20 to December 18, Qatar will host the Fifa World Cup, which many consider to be the biggest sporting event ever. The first nation in West Asia to host the World Cup in Qatar. The quadrennial spectacle is expected to draw over one million visitors, which will provide logistical challenges. A number of hotels and eight stadiums are preparing to host the tournament.

Sanjukta Bose, director of the IIHM network of hotel management institutes, declared that “The demand for people is much more than the supply,” About 200 of the 600 candidates the chain has previously sent to Qatar are from Kolkata.

“They will work at hotels and in stadiums. At the hotels, some of them will work in kitchens, some will serve as butlers and some others will be at the front desk. The work will be exhausting but the experience they earn will be invaluable. The pay is also better than the Indian average. Their accommodation and travel expenses are being taken care of,” she stated.

Freshmen and interns are being hired, according to the recruiters. Freshers refer to final students who have finished the three years of study or are about to do so. Second-year students would be considered interns. In Qatar, almost every assignment is contractual in nature.

“While freshers are getting contracts of up to six months, interns are mostly getting a month’s contracts. The hotels are giving a longer contract and stadiums a short contract,” According to Aditya Udani, director of Udaaan Management Academy, one of the organisations hiring workers from India for the World Cup, hotels offer longer contracts while stadiums offer shorter ones.