Dr. Rahul Kanekar

Educations

UGC-NET (Tourism Administration and Management, 2023)

Ph.D. In Management (Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University,

Kanpur, 2022)

Masters in Tourism Management (MKUDDE 2010)

Bsc in Hospitality & Hotel Administration (IHM Mumbai 2004)

Email ID: rahul.kanekar@nmims.edu

Subject Teaching and Teaching Interest:

Food and Beverage Service

Industry Experience:

More than Five years (5 years) of work experience across leading hospitality brands dealing with managing budgets, customer service, supervising maintenance, coordinating departmental tasks, and overseeing food and beverage.

Teaching Experience:

15 years.

Major Achievements, Honours and Awards, Certifications

Completed Level 2 of the "TEA AFICIONADO PROGRAM” Asian School of Tea

Completed WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust)- Level 1 in wine certification

Special recognition on contribution towards-The International Aerospace Exhibition (Dubai International Airport)

Training on Covid-19 Guidelines for food handlers certified by FSSAI (Food Safety & Standards Authority of India)

Service to the University

Mentor of SoHM Learning Insight & a member of Public Relations Committee

Memberships

Apex (Wine Club)

Research Interest:

Hospitality operation management, Emerging trends, Sustainable tourism growth

INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION:

• Applying AI and Data Mining Techniques to Evaluate and Enhance Life Quality in Eco-Friendly Healthcare Tourism Destinations. ICCSAI- 23 Conference paper (online) held at Galgotia’s University- 23rd to 25th November 2023; Published online in IEEE Xplore
• Cognitive Learning & Data Mining Optimization Strategies in Sustainable Training for Restaurant Food and Beverage Service Excellence. ICCSAI- 23 Conference paper (online) held at Galgotia’s University- 23rd to 25th November 2023; Published online in IEEE Xplore
• "Development and Construction of an Automated Sanitizing Robot Incorporating Ultrasonic Sensor and Sanitizer Level Detection Sensor," 2023 3rd International Conference on Advance Computing and Innovative Technologies in Engineering (ICACITE), Greater Noida, India, 2023, pp. 1460-1464, doi: 10.1109/ICACITE57410.2023.10182535.
• "Enhanced Recurrent Neural Network for Reducing Carbon Foot Printing in Industry," 2022 Sixth International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC), Dharan, Nepal, 2022, pp. 658-662, doi:10.1109/I-SMAC55078.2022.9987427.
• "The Role of Block chain Integration in the Field of Food Supply Chain in the Present and Future Development," 2022 International Interdisciplinary Humanitarian Conference for Sustainability (IIHC), Bengaluru, India, 2022, pp. 1543-1549, doi: 10.1109/IIHC55949.2022.10060636.
• "Empirical study on organisational commitment of employees in Indian Hotel Industry”, Materials Today: Proceedings, Volume 80, Part 3, 2023, Pages 1946-1950

Conference papers:

• SVKM’S NMIMS Case Study Conference (CSC2024) - Navigating Through TUNA (Turbulent - Uncertain-Novel -Ambiguous): Implications for Business and Society
• Study on the scope of Experiential Dining Trends on a Consumers- International conference on Gen Next Hospitality Future Trends in Hospitality Industry: New Age Hotels & Alternate Accommodation First Published, 2020 ISBN: 978-93-89657-18-0
• Study of scope of Digital Innovation in Hospitality Industry-National conference on Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism Industry organised by School of Hotel Management AJEENKYA DY Patil University. © 2019 JETIR May 2019, Volume 6, Issue 5 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162)
• Study on the Scope for Hospitality student in Retails, Banking, Telecom and, Health care- Volume-04 ISSN: 2455-3085 (Online) Issue-06 RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary June-2019 www.rrjournals.com [UGC Listed Journal]

-FDP’s Attended:

• Attended multiple sessions of Faculty Development Programme conducted by academic team of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland on effective teaching techniques, methodology and pedagogy.
• Attended a workshop on "Scope of Research in Hotel Management and Catering Technology organised by BVCHTMS Bharati Vidyapeeth.
• Mary’s College – FDP programme on "Effective Teaching Strategies in Higher Education”.
• International online workshop on "Research Methodology” organised by Wilson College & KES’ Shroff college in association with University of Mumbai.

MOOC - Massive Open Online Course

• "Retail Marketing Strategy” online course on SWAYAM NPTEL
• NMIMS Coursera- Human Resource Management: HR for People Managers
• NMIMS Coursera- Leadership Skills- Prof Vishal Gupta