INTERNSHIP SATISFACTION LEADING TO SKILL DEVELOPMENT AMONG STUDENTS FROM HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

This study aims to understand the impact of internship satisfaction of hospitality students and the impact of
their internships on their professional development and industrial perception. In line with this purpose, an
implementation will be conducted on the students who had pursued internship during or after the completion
of hotel management program This implementation will involve a questionnaire form which shall be filled by
at least 30 students, who had had pursued internship under the hospitality program. The findings will include
demographic information; 5-point Likert scaled questionnaire form which will be intended to determine the
internship satisfaction, practical knowledge and skills enhancement, and professional development and
industrial perception of the students, that can be analysed by taking mean scores of the scales of the form;
using appropriate statistical techniques, the relations between the scales will be studied, and the results will
be interpreted. The aim of this study is that the results should be able to show that internship satisfaction of
the students had a positive impact and impact by itself on their professional development and industrial
perspective, along with education that the students received.