Human Resource Planning (HRP) is a systematic and continuous process of forecasting an organization’s future human resource requirements and ensuring that the right number of people with the right skills, at the right time, are available at the right place to achieve organizational objectives. It involves analyzing current workforce capabilities, predicting future manpower needs based on business goals, identifying gaps between demand and supply of human resources, and formulating strategies such as recruitment, training, redeployment, and succession planning to bridge these gaps. HRP integrates organizational strategy with human resource management functions and ensures optimum utilization of human talent while maintaining flexibility to respond to changing environmental conditions. In the tourism sector, the need for Human Resource Planning is particularly significant because tourism is a labor-intensive and service-oriented industry. Unlike manufacturing industries where automation can replace human effort to a considerable extent, tourism relies heavily on human interaction and personalized service. Employees in tourism organizations such as hotels, travel agencies, airlines, tour operations, resorts, and event management companies directly interact with customers and significantly influence their satisfaction levels. Therefore, effective HRP ensures that competent, well-trained, and motivated personnel are available to deliver quality services consistently. One of the most distinctive characteristics of tourism as a service industry is intangibility. Tourism products, such as hospitality, travel experiences, and guided tours, cannot be touched or stored; they are experienced. Since customers evaluate the quality of these services based on their interaction with staff, employees become the face of the organization. HRP helps in identifying the competencies required for service excellence, such as communication skills, cultural sensitivity, problem-solving ability, and customer orientation. Through proper forecasting and planning, tourism organizations can recruit and train individuals who embody these qualities. Another unique feature of tourism is perishability. Unused hotel rooms, vacant airline seats, or unbooked tour packages represent lost revenue that cannot be recovered later. This creates fluctuations in demand and requires careful manpower planning. During peak seasons, such as holidays or festival periods, demand for tourism services increases sharply, requiring additional staff. During off-seasons, demand declines, leading to surplus labor. HRP enables tourism organizations to manage such seasonal variations through strategies like temporary staffing, part-time employment, outsourcing, flexible work schedules, and multiskilling of employees. Proper planning prevents overstaffing, which increases costs, and understaffing, which compromises service quality. Tourism is also characterized by heterogeneity, meaning that services vary depending on who provides them and under what circumstances. No two customer experiences are exactly the same because they depend on employee behavior, attitude,