Practical Work, Project and Industry Exposure
This domain is assessed through your practical file, role plays, field visits, internship logbook, project report, presentation and viva. Marks here reward documentation and evidence, not general essays.
What is assessed
Practical demonstrations (table setting, bed making, check-in role play), field-visit reports, an internship logbook signed daily by the supervisor, the project report, a presentation and a viva.
Project report skeleton
Title, aim and objectives, introduction, methodology (primary - questionnaire, interview, observation; secondary - books, Ministry of Tourism and state tourism board websites), findings, analysis, recommendations, conclusion, bibliography, annexures with captioned photographs.
Worked example
"Tourism potential of Bishnupur": objective - assess the visitor profile and identify facility gaps. Method - 30 visitor questionnaires plus interviews with two hoteliers and one guide. Findings - most visitors are day-trippers, signage is weak, no packaged tour exists. Recommendation - a half-day guided heritage walk with a craft demonstration. Reasoning: a specific, measurable objective and primary data earn marks; a general essay on Indian tourism does not.
Traps that cost marks
- Copying text without citation and failing the originality check.
- Objectives that cannot be measured.
- Missing methodology, or photographs without captions.
- An internship logbook without signatures and dates.
- Being unable to explain your own findings in the viva.