<p>as a proud graduate of the hotel school, i agree with what @oldfort said. kids end up doing a lot of different things upon graduation. the .pdf you were actually looking at only reports on summer internships, which tend to be a little more operations-based. but if you look at the post-graduate report, you’ll see it shifts away from that. here’s the report from my graduating class. </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/students/careers/documents/2012BSPostGraduateReport-Final_000.pdf”>https://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/students/careers/documents/2012BSPostGraduateReport-Final_000.pdf</a></p>