The hospitality industry is growing in Nepal with the introduction of new luxury hotels and restaurants. Investors are eagerly involved in the construction of five-star luxury hotels at various corners of the country.

Nepal is a country with huge scope in the hospitality and tourism industry. With that, the job opportunities in the hospitality industry are also increasing day by day. You must be wondering what kind of jobs are feasible for this industry. 

Well, there are lots of areas to work and build a career in the hospitality field. Let’s explore the different types of hospitality jobs in Nepal with their scopes.

Various Hospitality Jobs in Nepal

Chef

A chef is a professional person who specializes in cooking and is masterful in all aspects of food preparation. The word ‘Chef’ is originated from the term ‘chef de cuisine’ which represents the director or head of a kitchen.

People often confuse a chef and a cook thinking both the jobs are the same. Though both the jobs relate to food preparation, the responsibilities differ.

A chef is a highly-trained professional capable of understanding flavours, producing new recipes from scratch, optimizing cooking techniques and acting as a highly responsible individual within a kitchen. On the other hand, a cook is a person who just follows the recipes to prepare desired food.

Chef is also categorized into various sub-categories that include:

Executive Chef

Sous Chef

Senior Chef

Pastry Chef

Sauce Chef

Pantry Chef

Roast Chef

Fish Chef

Vegetable Chef and much more…

There is a good demand for chefs in Nepal as you can easily find vacancies in various hotels, restaurants, resorts and other hospitality areas.

Hotel/Restaurant Manager

A Hotel/Restaurant Manager is a person whose responsibility is to ensure every service is running smoothly in a hotel or a restaurant. The key role includes managing staff, interacting with valued guests, handling overall operations, overseeing finances and much more.

To become a hotel or a restaurant manager, you need to have ample experience as well as good educational achievement in hotel management courses. The majority of hotels and restaurants require their manager to possess strong business skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills, problem-solving skills and overall management skills.

The Hotel/Restaurant manager is responsible for operating the business in an efficient manner. They need to focus on every aspect including finances, operations, staff handling and so on.

The scope of a hotel or a restaurant manager in Nepal is pretty good however, the vacancies don’t arrive in large numbers. If you are planning to build your career as a manager, you need to first start with a ground-level position and eventually reach the managerial level after gaining ample experience.

Concierge

A concierge is an individual whose role is to interact with guests directly to provide them with various services as per the requirement. This type of job is mainly available in five-star luxury hotels and resorts.

A concierge acts as per the demand of guests, patrons, employees, or tenants with personal services like offering suggestions for events, managing transportation, making dinner and tour reservations, making theatre reservations and so on.

The key requirement for the concierge position is problem-solving capabilities and good communication skills. This job is taken as an entry-level position at some hotels however, five-star luxury hotels require a good amount of hospitality exposure. 

In Nepal, five-star luxury hotels like The Malla Hotel, Hotel Shangri-La and others offer Concierge services to their valued customers. You can join these hotels as a Concierge but make sure you have the required qualities and experience in the hospitality industry.

Event Manager

The majority of hotels and restaurants feature conference rooms, meeting areas, event spaces, halls and other infrastructures to host events, ceremonies, meetings, weddings and so on. Here is where the role of an Event Manager is required.

An event manager or a planner is a person who manages events to make them successful. He or she must ensure everything required for an event is fulfilled. It is like preparing everything precisely in the backend to produce a fruitful result in the frontend.

Key responsibilities of an event manager include:

Planning an event from the initial moment to the conclusion

Generating strategic ideas for an event

Planning target audience and key objectives

Overseeing the financial requirements

Negotiating with the sponsors

Managing logistics and event venues

Managing all the technologies required and much more…

Nepal is slowly moving towards western culture practising various international festivals, occasions and special events. Besides, people are more interested in celebrating their birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and other special moments with expensive programs.

With that, the scope for event managers is increasing. For instance, people in Nepal these days hire event managers for handling their wedding ceremonies.

Receptionist

A receptionist is an office or administrative level job which includes record-keeping, managing appointments, filing information and other office-level tasks. In addition, an individual working as a receptionist answer phone calls, provide information to the guests and welcome visitors.

The receptionists are often called front desk officers who are the first employee to come in contact with the public or guests. That’s why they are highly responsible for maintaining a good first impression of the hotel or the restaurant.

You need to have good written and verbal communication skills, customer service skills, multitasking capabilities, problem-solving skills, computer skills and various other skills to work as a receptionist.

The scope for receptionists in Nepal is good as there are ample hotels, restaurants and resorts operating currently with new ones arriving at a rapid pace.

If you fulfil all the key requirements, you can apply for receptionist jobs in various hotels and restaurants in Nepal.

Waiter/Waitress

Waiter/Waitress is the most demanding and common job in the hospitality industry. This job is inevitable and hotels/restaurants require it for smooth operation and customer satisfaction.

The key role of a waiter or a waitress is to greet and serve customers with quality service. He or she must provide detailed information on menus, offer suggestions for food, serve with care, collect bills and handle overall customer needs.

Waiter and Waitress are required to provide Food and Beverage service to the customers in accordance with the standards of the industry. Besides, they need to prepare tables, greet and escort customers, present the menu, inform customers about the day’s specials or chef’s specials, serve food and drinks with precision and much more.

The Waiter/Waitress job is the most demanding position in Nepal due to a large number of requirements in restaurants and hotels. For instance, a restaurant with 30 to 40 people capacity might require more than five waiters/waitresses for quick and smooth operation.

Housekeeper

Housekeeping is another demanding job in the hospitality industry that includes cleaning hotel rooms, bedding and laundry facilities. Other responsibilities include delivering items to guests’ rooms, carrying cleaning equipment and restocking supplies.

Housekeeping is physically demanding work that requires a housekeeper to clean an average of 10 to 14 rooms a day. Not only that, housekeepers are required to ensure a room is kept organized, clean and tidy.

Talking about the scope in Nepal, the housekeeping jobs are demanding due to the introduction of new hotels and restaurants.

Conclusion

The hospitality jobs in Nepal we discussed above are popular and demanding ones. Besides those areas, there are various other jobs in the industry ranging from low-level to the top-level.

There are lots of hotels, restaurants, resorts and other hospitality businesses operating in Nepal and new ones are also opening rapidly. The Coronavirus pandemic disrupted the hotel and tourism industry for a while but things are getting normal now.

As the businesses are slowly recovering from the pandemic phase, hospitality jobs are also developing. So, you can build your career in this industry for which you need to take some hospitality courses and build some experience.