The Chawla family, owners of one of the most successful hospitality companies in Mississippi, has joined forces with Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) to create a new job-training institute that is now designed to attract hospitality trainees from across the region.

A ;new, 63-room ($6.5M) Hampton Inn in the rural Mississippi Delta has partnered with Coahoma Community College, where the new hospitality-training program is now housed. Specific fields of study and certification is now in the areas of management, technical maintenance, housekeeping inspectors, and guest service agents. ;Due to the town’s strategic location, growing tourism base as the home of the BB King Museum, and the opportunity to create a training facility, the Chawla family has committed to invest in this highly distressed, rural area in a way that built the community and increase job opportunities for a region that has traditionally struggled with workforce readiness.