Gulf needs to hospitality HR search
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The Gulf region’s burgeoning hospitality industry will need to find recruits from new markets because traditional recruitment markets like India and Southeast Asia are drying up, the Gulf News has reported hospitality community portal, Hozpitality.com, as saying.
The Dubai-based portal, which claims to be the Middle East’s first specifically hospitality-focused career and networking portal, stated yesterday that more than 2 million staff would be needed by 2020.
“We see that the regional hospitality sector is on a long-term innings and despite the current economic uncertainty which may cause a medium-term slowdown, the outlook is robust as governments in the region, particularly in the Gulf are keen to diversify income sources and tourism and hospitality are major components in this strategy,” Hozpitality.com’s Director, Raj Bhatt, was quoted by Gulf News as saying
He said it is becoming difficult to source skilled staff from traditional markets because of increasing staff absorption in those markets.
Hospitality companies have already started developing their own talent, with Jumeirah having opened the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management in association with the respected Swiss establishment, Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, in Dubai. Such is the rapid development of the sector however, external recruitment, especially for the lower-wage employment levels, is seen as a necessary solution to the industry’s rapidly increasing HR needs.
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