Samenvatting

While there has been an increase of research into career mobility and success separately in recent years, few have combined these dimensions and much less have done so for the global, seemingly dynamic hospitality industry. So, what are the effects of mobility on success for hospitality professionals with at minimum a bachelor’s degree?
In an effort to clarify the relations and advance career development and students’ decision processes, 84 individuals with a hospitality degree, most of which graduated at maximum ten ago and originated in Europe, filled in the survey distributed via alumni groups and snowball sampling.
Analysing the results with the software package SPSS, it became clear that there is no mediation effect, and the two types of mobility do not have any direct relation with each other. They do, however, almost exclusively show an effect on one success type each, psychological mobility, most noticeably a value-based orientation, enhancing Subjective Success and physical showing an effect on Objective Success. It is to conclude that the hospitality industry is more traditional than commonly thought, as staying with a single company proves most beneficial to one’s career.