PHOA, the Philippines Hotel Owners Association founded in 1977, the foremost organization of hotel owners in the country headquartered in Makati City is developing a manpower roadmap to address labour shortage.
The Association is planning to identify the workforce needs of the expanding hospitality sector and address potential labour shortages caused by the migration of many qualified workers and graduates abroad, an initiative, the first of its kind for the hospitality industry in the country.
At the media launch of Philippines Hotel Connect 2025, the country' largest gathering of hotel owners, investors and developers, will take place on July 24 and 25 the PHOA Executive Director Benito Bengzon Jr, said that this initiative aims to ensure that hotels have qualified manpower to recruit from.
According to PHOA's Philippines Accommodation Pipeline Report 2024, more than 55.000 direct jobs will be required to support 158 accommodations projects that are either in the pipeline or under development over the next few years in the country.
The Executive Director stated that there is a problem with job mismatch, the continuing problems about the Philippines tourism and hospitality students getting jobs on cruise ships, and about the difficulty of getting baristas, front office desk clerks and other positions in the sector.
The industry's human capital development plan must be forward - looking, the human capital development plan for the industry is aspirational and the narrative has to change.
Many Filipinos will still want to continue to aspire for overseas jobs and therefore the country can not be using the competition posed by overseas employment as the perpetual reason for not having enough people to work in the Philippines.
A human capital development plan will allow the industry to ensure that all hotels opening in the next five to 10 years will have a qualified pool of manpower to recruit from.
PHOA's Executive Director added that the roadmap is going to be a game changer because once you have the document, you will be able to see a clearer picture of the future and it will be good not only for hotel owners but also for current workers, the student and the parents.
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