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The Skills Gap in the Hospitality Industry
Daniel Ciapponi | September 5, 2023
By Daniel Ciapponi Labor is the biggest single cost for hospitality institutions, yet many hotel and tourism industry employers are facing an industry-wide shortage of qualified employees. Travel and tourism may be up as global levels of wealth increase, but there are fewer qualified hospitality workers across the entire industry - from casinos and cruise ships to restaurants and hotels. So what skills are current employees missing and how can hospitality students gain the right set of skills to plug the skills gap and save the industry in the future? What caused the hospitality industry labor shortage? Several different factors conve...
Can the Hospitality Industry Recover?
Lex Fuller | June 20, 2022
By Lex Fuller Over the past two years, the hospitality industry has had to make major changes to deal with the many difficulties it has faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most notable hurdle for the hospitality industry has been the labor shortage. With the dangers of COVID-19, it has been increasingly difficult for hotels to find and keep employees, causing the hospitality industry to make adjustments in order to compensate for the loss of on-sight workers. This leaves us with the following question, will the hospitality industry ever go back to the way it was before the pandemic? While things are opening back up after a long batt...
Paying Their Dues: Why Hospitality Workers Entering the Industry Are Saying ‘Not for Me’
Cindy Johnson | January 10, 2022
By Cindy Johnson You know, we all have done it — worked our way up the ladder, pushed ourselves to physical and mental limits or sacrificed our personal plans — just to focus on our upwardly mobile hospitality careers. Over the last several decades, that is how industry leaders as well as new entrants forged their path to success: working hard, working long hours and “paying their dues” to move up. However, here we are in a world since the start of COVID and we find ourselves in the most acute labor shortage the industry has ever experienced. The hospitality industry has been hit hard by closures, layoffs, and furloughs and now com...
Hospitality Industry Organization, Golden Rule Charity, Launches Multimillion-Dollar Fundraising Initiative to Help Those Affected by COVID-19 Busines
Golden Rule Charity | April 16, 2020
National organization mobilizes to deliver timely resources for those facing unexpected and unprecedented hardship SAN DIEGO, April 16, 2020 -- Golden Rule Charity, a national organization uniquely focused on delivering resources to qualified hospitality companies and employees in times of need, is launching a bold new fundraising effort to respond to the extraordinary challenges of those impacted by COVID-19. All donations will support the nonprofit's grant program, which awards applicants who currently work full or part time and have been employed in the industry a minimum of 6 months and meet additional criteria. "Members of our har...
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