What are hospitality careers? If you have your eye on one, you probably already know. Hospitality careers are careers in which hospitality is the primary service extended to the customer. Hotels are in the hospitality business. Restaurants are in the hospitality business. Cruise ships are in the hospitality business. Casinos and nightclubs are in the hospitality business. If your job involves making people feel like they're right at home when they're actually in your place of business, then you're in the hospitality business, and you have a hospitality career.
There are many types of hospitality career colleges from which to choose and many jobs within each of those careers. Within the hotel industry, you can be anything from a hotel manager to a receptionist to a bellhop to a maid to a parking lot attendant. Or, you can work in hotel management, supervising the behind-the-scenes operations that make the hotel run smoothly and keep the customers satisfied.
In the cruise ship industry, hospitality careers could be anything from being the captain of the ship to a deck steward to the hostess who arranges nightly events and meals for the ship's guests. You could book cruises for passengers, or you could manage the entire cruise line. This is such a glamorous field and would take you to so many interesting and beautiful places that you might be tempted to do it for free, but you can actually make a well-paid hospitality career out of it.
A casino (where legal) would certainly be an exciting place to work. Hospitality careers at casinos could include the floor boss, who makes sure that customers are kept well supplied with alcoholic beverages while they gamble their money at the blackjack tables, or the person who sells the chips that casinos use as their medium of exchange. You could be a card dealer or a croupier (the person who takes the bets at the gambling table). You could be a stage entertainer or a doorman.
One of the nice things about hospitality careers is that you can enjoy some of the hospitality yourself. Although you'd be doing a great deal of work in return for that hospitality, you'd see beautiful places, work in glamorous establishments, wear attractive clothing and uniforms, and meet interesting people, some of whom may even be famous. And while your salary wouldn't necessarily be high, you might have the opportunity for large tips, especially when a high-rolling gambler wins a big hand at the blackjack table.
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