Faculty
Dr. Aravind Kumar Rai
Assistant Professor
Alliance School of Economics
Chef Dr Aravind Kumar Rai, BHM, M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Manipal University Jaipur, has 18 years of hospitality operations and education experience. He started his culinary career in continental and Italian kitchens and has worked at The Leela Palace – A Luxury Kempinski Resort Goa, Marriott's Virginia, USA, RCCL Cruise Liner Miami, USA, and the Taj group of hotels. Before 2009, he was a sous chef at Park Group Hotels' LAP Hotels in New Delhi.
His academic affiliations include IHM Meerut, Amity School of Hospitality and Manipal University Jaipur for the previous 14 years.
Food production, Global cuisine, and hospitality management are his teaching interests. He collaborated with Australian Michelin-starred Chef Nancy Kinchela. He's a researcher of peer-reviewed Scopus Index Journals and a reviewer for "International Journal of Hospitality Management”. He holds copyrights and design patents.
Specific research areas I have focused on in the marketing of services in hospitality sectors include Restaurants and hotels service sector and operations. Furthermore, I assisted with the research and Practical work with consulting of new project work like planning of new out-let opening.
- Kumar Rai, A., Mukesh, S., Shweta U., & Anmol, M. (2024). Determining food quality as an important aspect of customers’ dining experience. Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, 28(S2), 1-9.
- Kumar Rai, A., Govil, B., Dey, S., Shekhar, M., & Mehta, A. (2024). Sustainable food consumption: an assessment of food quality and satisfaction of consumers as compared to conventional food in punjab region an empirical study. Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, 28(S1), 1-11.
- Anirvinna C., Sharma S., Rai A.K., “An Assessment of Economic Significance of Tourism Receipts In India.”. Tourism Management, ISSN :02615177Vol 91- Issue -1 – MARCH- (2022) (Accepted)
- Rai A.K., Kumar A., Chahar P.S., Anirvinna C. (2021) Effect of Servicescape and Nourishment Quality on Client’s Loyalty in Fine Dining Restaurants: A Statistical Investigation. In: Senjyu T., Mahalle P.N., Perumal T., Joshi A. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems. ICTIS 2020. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 195. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7078-0_7
- Mukesh Shekhar, Anirvinna C., & Rai A.K. (2019). Choose or Check-In: Gender Influence in Booking of the Luxury Hotels in Jaipur. International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 9(2S3), 378–380. https://doi.org/10.35940/ijitee.B1086.1292S319
- Rai, A. K., & Anirvinna, C. (2019). Investigating the influence of servicescape on customer loyalty at a fine-dining restaurants in Jaipur. African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2019(Special Issue). https://www.ajhtl.com/uploads/7/1/6/3/7163688/article_1_se_gbcss_2019.pdf
- Review of Molecular Cookery in context of Indian Cuisine Fine Dining Restaurants, Research Analysis & Evaluation ISSN:0975-3486, Volume-V, Issue-116 May-2019 PP 38-40.UGC Approved.
SHORT TERM COURSE AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
- National Workshop on “Scientific Computational Techniques” organized by Department of Mathematics, Manipal University Jaipur during 8-9, Nov. 2014
- National Workshop on “Research paper writing” organized by School of business and commerce, Manipal University Jaipur during, December 2014
- 7day National Workshop on “Research paper writing and use of SPSS” organized by TAPMI School of business, Manipal University Jaipur during, June 2015.
- 1 Week National Workshop on “SPSS and Uses of software in Research” organized by School of Basic Sciences, Manipal University Jaipur during, July 2015
- Completed 7-day short-term course On Data Analysis for Research & Publication, which is organized by Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
Honours & Awards
- Awarded researcher of the month for Dec.2023 and Feb.2024 from Manipal University Jaipur.
- Awarded Best Paper during International Conference on “Emerging Trends in Hospitality & Tourism Sector” to be held at Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut (India).
- Board of Studies Members and Doctoral research committee Member for Vivekananda global University (NAAC A+)Jaipur, Rajasthan.
- Present a Research Paper Title: Health is Wealth: The Significance of Organic/Slow Food in the Context of Indian People” at the International Hospitality & Tourism Conference-2014 (IHTC-14) In Penang, Malaysia. Published in Taylor & Francis Journal. Scopus Index.
- Present a paper in World Congress on Advance Management Practices in Business, Banking, Economics, E- Commerce, Marketing and Tourism (BEMT- 2015) held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 26th and 27th September 2015
- Research paper title the relationship between perceived service quality and positive word of mouth effect in terms of four-star hotels growths” has been presented in two days International Conference on “Emerging Trends in Hospitality & Tourism Sector” to be held at “Swami Vivekanand Subharti University”, Meerut (India) on dated 21-22 November 2015 organized by “Bhikaji Cama Subharti Institute of Hotel Management.
- Attended 7th International Chefs Conference Which is organized by the World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS), held at Pullman Hotel, New Delhi, India from September 1st to 3rd 2017.
- Present a Research Paper Title: Molecular Cookery: “New Era of Indian Cuisine in Fine Dining Restaurants”
- at the National Conference on Indian food heritage, At NCHMCT, Noida on 12th and 13th March 2018.
- Present a research paper Title “An Opportunities and Challenges in Molecular Cookery: In Context of Fine Dining Restaurant” in 2nd Singapore – International Conference on Research in Social Science & Humanities (ICRSSH) from 12th March 2019 to 13-March- 2019 at The National University of Singapore Society (NUSS), Singapore.
