Tourism Industry to generate almost 6.5 million additional jobs by 2022

Travel, Tourism and Hospitality industry in India will open almost double the number of job opportunities in the country between now and year 2022. These three segments together employed 6.96 million people in 2013, and predicted to provide employment to 13.44 million people over the next decade, said the Human Resource and Skill Requirement Report by the government. The report containing incremental human resource requirement across 24 sectors in the country was released by Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, in Delhi.

According to the findings of the report, the incremental human resource requirement across these 24 sectors is nearly 109.73 million whereby the top ten sectors account for about 80 percent of requirements. As per the report, Building, construction and Real Estate sector will be the biggest employment generators in the coming decade accounting for an additional job opportunity of 31.13 million.

Speaking on the occasion, Rudy said that as the old adage goes, what cannot be measured, cannot be corrected. The idea behind the Skill Gap Studies is to understand which sectors are likely to face the biggest gaps. It is imperative for the government to plan the ‘skilling’ of future workforce of India on the basis of these reports, he said.

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