With 244 hotels, containing 55,000 hotel rooms in the pipeline, the UAE will create approximately 120,000 new jobs by 2011, providing hotel management and recruitment specialists with a challenge, but more significantly generating genuine career opportunities for UAE nationals and expatriates alike.
“The industry average for employees required to run a hotel vary greatly from less than one to more than three staff pre hotel room, therefore with 244 hotels due to come online, 120,000 is perhaps a conservative estimate” said Frederique Maurell, Director of The Hotel Show.
To recognise these issues The Hotel Show 2011, which takes place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from May 17-19, has created a ‘careers afternoon’ in collaboration with The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management (EAHM) to provide advice to aspiring hoteliers either embarking on a career in hospitality or those looking for career direction and vocational training.
The EAHM part of the Jumeirah Group, is a institution of higher education in the Middle East that offers internationally-accredited and industry-recognised degree-level courses focusing on hospitality education. It also runs a number of preparatory training programmes sponsored by DTCM and TANMIA that are aimed at encouraging UAE nationals to take up a career in hospitality. As a result UAE nationals are now working across a diverse range of roles such as front office, HR, administration, security and food and beverage.