A brief look at the wonderful world of hospitality, some challenges for the industry, and a few reasons why you might consider it as a career – by Andrew Lo The word hospitality derives from the Latin verb hospitare, meaning “to receive as a guest.”  Hospitality may bring to mind the times your relatives stayed over at your home, or the times your family went on vacation and stayed at a...

Recession got you down? Hunting for a job? Then these tips should be just what the doctor ordered. The YoungHotelier.com and Hot Hoteliers team sit down with Craig Cochran and Alex Rawson from Movenpick for a healthy dose of real-world wisdom. The first video offers some great advice on hunting for a job during the current economic downturn – some basic pointers that we may tend to forget when t...

Employability Tips during Recessionary Times There is considerable coverage globally about the pressures that the global recession is placing upon (hospitality) organisations generally, but what is the impact of this downturn specifically upon the hospitality job seeker at this moment in time?  The obvious observation is that times are tough.  That is to say competition from other job seekers is...

Are you looking for your first job, or in another country / department or even just…”A” Job? Here is a great how-to guide for hoteliers on how to leverage the power of the internet and social networks to find a job, especially important during the current recession! View the how-to basics in the viewer below, read it online at HoteleMarketer.com or Download a copy to share wi...

When the going gets tough, Hotel eMarketers play harder: As the world gets harder, better, faster, stronger in many respects, so do the ripple effects of world events. The recent attacks in Mumbai are a prime example – hotels the world over are now scrambling to take a re-look at their security measures. In terms of broader trends, the worrying shifts in climate pales in comparison to the e...

Opportunities available in the fastest growing and most exciting region of the world Dubai That’s what I read about four months ago in my universities career office and right about now was when I should have been starting to pack. My name is Sean Griffiths and I’m 20 years old, I live in Melbourne, Australia, I am currently studying hospitality and tourism, working part time as a hotel recepti...

Hotelier Idol points the spotlight at the robust hotel development pipeline and the underlying challenges presented in terms of recruitment, training and retention. Case Study: The United Arab Emirates, specifically Dubai and Abu Dhabi If one was to look at the global inventory in the pipelines and view it as a “city state” Dubai has officially the largest Construction Pipeline of any other M...