Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies

Motivation is especially important in the hospitality and tourism industry, where competence and employee satisfaction are key determinants of service quality. The study aims to find out the important factors which motivate the working personnel in the hospitality industry. The primary data has been collected through a structured questionnaire. The questionnaires were filled by 5 Managers and 40 employees of the Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi. Simple random sampling has been used. For the hotel industry in particular, training is a useful tool for an effective development of the human resource. The job in a hotel involves lot of work pressures and the employees need to be able to cope with this. Though the purpose of training in Hotel is to prepare the employees for future assignments but still training empowers him with knowledge and skill, which in turn affects his motivation level. Thus Training although traditional, still retains its position as an important motivational tool.