The Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition (IHMCTAN), Guwahati is sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. The Institute is pledged to train promising men and women in hotel management, and catering technology, and in specific fields such as cookery bakery, food & beverage service, front office, accountancy, house-keeping management and allied topics, depending on the branch of the industry which the trainee desires to take up.