SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988
STRONG DEMAND FOR HOTEL WORKERS
CENT
THE WORKFORCE OF THE HOTEL INDUSTRY ROSE BY ALMOST 20 TER
1987, ACCORDING TO A IN TWO YEARS FROM 19,000 IN 1985 TO 23,000 IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL SURVEY.
THE COUNCIL'S HOTEL, CATERING AND THERE WERE 700
THE SURVEY, CONDUCTED BY TOURISM TRAINING BOARD, ALSO FOUND THAT IN APRIL 1987 VACANCIES IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY COMPARED WITH 580 IN 1985.
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THE REASONS FOR THE GROWTH IN MANPOWER DEMAND IN WERE THE OPENING OF FIVE NEW HOTELS AND THE EXPANSION WITHIN THAT PERIOD.
THE INDUSTRY OF OLDER ONES
AND WOULD BE COMING GIVEN THAT MORE HOTELS WERE BEING BUILT
THE BOARD YEARS,
ENVISAGED IN THE INTO OPERATION IN THE NEXT TWO
THE BULK REPORT THAT THE MANPOWER DEMAND WOULD CONTINUE TO GROW WITH AT OPERATIVE LEVEL.
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5,700
1 -1 THE NUMBER OF PUTTING THE RATIO OF ROOM TO EMPLOYEE AT 1: EMPLOYEES REQUIRED BY NEW HOTELS WOULD BE AROUND 5,000 IN 1988, IN 1989 AND 1,700 IN 1990, THE BOARD NOTED.
TRAINING
SCHEMES
MODELLED
COURSES
THE
IN
FOR THE ON SUCCESSFUL
ΤΟ COUNCIL
COMPLEMENT TOURISM SECTOR WERE BEING PLANNED BY THE
WHICH WERE APPARENTLY INADEQUATE EXISTING TRAINING PROVISIONS. MEETING THE GROWING TRAINING NEEDS, THE BOARD SAID.
THE
NOW
DFTAILED STATISTICS ON THE MANPOWER SITUATION ARE GIVEN IN IS INDUSTRY, ON
WHICH 1987 MANPOWER SURVEY REPORT
CENTRE, GPO BUILDING,
THE
HOTEL
AT AVAILABLE
PUBLICATIONS THE GOVERNMENT CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL, AT $45.50 A COPY.
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UK RAILWAY INSPECTING OFFICER ARRIVES
'FO MUN AND
THE GOVERNMENT A UK RAILWAY INSPECTING OFFICER INVITED BY EXAMINE THE SAFETY OF THE LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM FOR TUEN YUEN LONG, HAS ARRIVED IN HONG KONG THIS (SUNDAY) AFTERNOON.
HE IS MR ALAN COOKSEY, DEPUTY THE UK DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT.
CHIEF
INSPECTING OFFICER
FRO1
/UNDER THE